Senior Data Reliability Engineer — AWS Data Platform

Empower; United States; On-site; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life保险

401(k) plan with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Generous PTO and paid holidays

Volunteer time off

BRGs – inclusion programs

Job summary

Empower is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will diagnose production incidents, improve pipelines, and collaborate with data and platform teams to enhance system resilience.

The role focuses on operating and troubleshooting production data systems, designing robust monitoring, and supporting disaster recovery and DR planning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with production data platforms in AWS environments.
• Experience building data pipelines and handling real-world failures and ops challenges.
• Strong Python and SQL skills in real data systems.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spark/EMR, Redshift, streaming).
• Proven ability to debug and resolve production data pipeline issues.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and stability of production data pipelines and data platform services.
• Diagnose and resolve data pipeline failures, delays, and data quality issues in production environments.
• Investigate issues across distributed data systems (e.g., Spark/EMR workloads, ingestion pipelines, warehouse performance).
• Lead or support incident response, including triage, mitigation, and long-term resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement durable fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Define and improve data SLAs (freshness, latency, completeness) and ensure adherence.
• Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability for data systems.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve system resilience.
• Contribute to disaster recovery (DR) and resiliency planning, including backup validation and recovery workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve pipeline design, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation.
• Participate in occasional off-hours support for production data systems when required.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Data pipelines

Incident response

Spark/EMR

Tools

Spark/EMR

Redshift

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

Empower is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will diagnose production incidents, improve pipelines, and collaborate with data and platform teams to enhance system resilience.

The role focuses on operating and troubleshooting production data systems, designing robust monitoring, and supporting disaster recovery and DR planning.