Senior Data Platform Engineer — Remote, Snowflake & Kafka

Svitla Systems; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or office

Competitive compensation

Performance appraisals

Flexible workspace

Bonuses for talks

Generous time off

Learning programs

Tech webinars

Corporate activities

Supportive team

Job summary

Svitla Systems is seeking a Senior Production Data-Platform Engineer with hands-on experience in data-platform engineering to help migrate and modernize client workloads. You will work across Snowflake, Kafka, and AWS, focusing on DevOps practices, secure access, and scalable architectures.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in a senior role, strong scripting and SQL skills, and proven ability to operate across development, staging, and production environments.

Qualifications

• Senior data platform engineer with 3+ years in a senior role and hands-on production experience.
• Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.
• Production experience with Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with a DevOps focus.
• Deep Snowflake and AWS experience with Kafka knowledge, or deep Kafka/Confluent with Snowflake knowledge.
• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, staging, and production.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
• Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Help migrate client’s acquired infrastructure and data-platform workloads to client’s infrastructure.
• Migrate data-platform infrastructure to AWS us-east-2 and ensure connectivity and deployment prerequisites.
• Enable secure, governed access to data for data-platform consumers and downstream systems.
• Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and practices to align with client standards.
• Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data-platform migration and operations across stage and production.
• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, runbooks and cross-team migration coordination.
• Use Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes to deliver repeatable changes.

Skills

Python

Bash

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

Kafka/Confluent

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

Svitla Systems is seeking a Senior Production Data-Platform Engineer with hands-on experience in data-platform engineering to help migrate and modernize client workloads. You will work across Snowflake, Kafka, and AWS, focusing on DevOps practices, secure access, and scalable architectures.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in a senior role, strong scripting and SQL skills, and proven ability to operate across development, staging, and production environments.