Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote & Stock Options

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time $

Monthly Stipend: $150 per month

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered leader in data infrastructure, seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core data platform infrastructure spanning distributed query engines, lakehouse storage, orchestration, and streaming pipelines.

You will collaborate with AI and Data Science teams, contribute to deployments, governance, and reliability, and work in a fully distributed, remote team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure, platform engineering, or software engineering, with end-to-end ownership of production systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience building reliable pipelines, services, or platform tooling.
• Experience building or operating distributed data systems, such as query engines, lakehouses, or streaming platforms.
• Experience operating cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.
• Sound operational judgment, clear technical communication, and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core data platform infrastructure, including distributed query engines, lakehouse storage, orchestration, and streaming pipelines.
• Contribute to regional platform deployments, building scalable and repeatable infrastructure using Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code.
• Develop real-time data processing, analytics, and alerting capabilities for operational and product use cases.
• Partner with AI and Data Science teams on the platform foundations for agentic workflows, evaluations, and ML lifecycle tooling.
• Evolve our data catalog, governance, and access controls so data is discoverable and properly governed.
• Own platform reliability through observability, on-call participation, and operational improvements while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Tools

Trino/Presto/Spark

Kafka

Iceberg

ClickHouse/Pinot/Druid

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered leader in data infrastructure, seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core data platform infrastructure spanning distributed query engines, lakehouse storage, orchestration, and streaming pipelines.

You will collaborate with AI and Data Science teams, contribute to deployments, governance, and reliability, and work in a fully distributed, remote team.