Senior Data Platform Reliability Architect - Remote

Sustain.Life; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Workiva is seeking a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our analytics data systems. You will provide technical leadership to an offshore contract team, own platform health, and drive improvements in observability and automation.

You will guide incident response, design monitoring, and push for robust data governance. Strong data warehousing experience with Snowflake and DBT is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS, engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering focusing on data infrastructure, with lead project experience.
• Proven technical leadership to distributed or offshore teams.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, warehousing, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical leadership to offshore contract team and act as primary technical contact.
• Own operational health and performance of data platform; define SLIs/SLOs and automate scaling.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems to drive reliability improvements.
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting for service health and query performance.
• Build self-service workflows and IaC to reduce toil; mentor offshore team.
• Orchestrate data tasks with Airflow/Dagster/Prefect to manage complex dependencies.
• Enforce RBAC and data quality to ensure compliant, secure data handling.
• Plan capacity and cloud spend; translate constraints into business risk impacts.
• Provide operational support to data engineering, product teams, and stakeholders.

Skills

SRE/DevOps/Systems Eng

Technical leadership

Data modeling / warehousing

Python

Java

Go

Scala

Fivetran

CData

Census

Openflow

Snowflake

DBT

Snowflake SQL

Terraform

Splunk

Airflow

S3

Athena

Iceberg

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Terraform

Splunk

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Job description

Workiva is seeking a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our analytics data systems. You will provide technical leadership to an offshore contract team, own platform health, and drive improvements in observability and automation.

You will guide incident response, design monitoring, and push for robust data governance. Strong data warehousing experience with Snowflake and DBT is required.