Senior Data Platform Reliability Architect

Workiva, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

RSUs

401(k) match

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Workiva, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our analytics and data systems. You will lead a contract offshore team, drive reliability initiatives, and set strategic direction for data platform operations.

You will own incidents, define SLIs/SLOs, and build automated guardrails with IaC. Strong experimentation and collaboration with data engineering and product teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years in SRE/DevOps/Systems Engineering focusing on data infrastructure and leading technical projects or teams.
• Proven ability to provide clear technical leadership to cross-functional or offshore teams.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, warehousing, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and DBT; expert in Snowflake SQL.
• Expert-level experience with Terraform, Splunk, and Airflow or similar technologies.
• Proficiency in Python and languages such as Java, Go, or Scala.
• Experience with ingestion frameworks like Fivetran, CData, Census and Openflow.
• Experience with Data Lakes (S3, Athena, Iceberg).

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Direction: guide offshore contract team to ensure high-quality execution of platform operations and reliability projects.
• Reliability & Operations: own operational health and performance of the data platform with defined SLIs/SLOs and scalable automation.
• Incident Management: lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and drive systemic reliability improvements.
• Observability & Monitoring: design monitoring frameworks and alerting for health, query behavior, and performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Technical leadership

SRE / DevOps

Data platform reliability

Python

SQL / data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Airflow

Terraform

Splunk

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Workiva, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our analytics and data systems. You will lead a contract offshore team, drive reliability initiatives, and set strategic direction for data platform operations.

You will own incidents, define SLIs/SLOs, and build automated guardrails with IaC. Strong experimentation and collaboration with data engineering and product teams are essential.