Senior Data Platform Reliability Lead (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Restricted Stock Units

401(k) match

Job summary

Workiva seeks a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across data platforms. You will guide an offshore contract team, drive automation, and establish scalable monitoring and governance to keep analytics systems performant and available.

In this role you’ll partner with data engineering and product teams, design SLIs/SLOs, and own incident response while advancing data security and compliance within a dynamic AI-enabled platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering focused on data infrastructure.
• Experience leading technical projects or offshore/contract teams.
• Strong ability to provide technical direction across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction to offshore contract team for reliability projects.
• Own operational health, define SLIs/SLOs, and scale systems via automation.
• Lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and drive improvements.
• Design monitoring, alerting, and observability for data platforms.
• Implement IaC and self-service workflows to reduce toil.
• Manage data orchestration (Airflow/Dugster/Prefect) and data governance access.
• Collaborate with data engineering, product teams, and stakeholders.

Skills

Data Platform Reliability

SRE Leadership

DevOps

Data Modeling

Snowflake

DBT

Terraform

Airflow

Python

Java/Go/Scala

Fivetran

CData/Census/Openflow

S3/Athena/Iceberg

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Terraform

Splunk

Airflow

Job description

Workiva seeks a Senior Staff Data Platform Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across data platforms. You will guide an offshore contract team, drive automation, and establish scalable monitoring and governance to keep analytics systems performant and available.

In this role you’ll partner with data engineering and product teams, design SLIs/SLOs, and own incident response while advancing data security and compliance within a dynamic AI-enabled platform.