Senior SRE: Data & ML Platform

Datavant; Juneau (AK); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Data & ML Platform team. You will help build a resilient, observable, and scalable platform enabling data and ML workloads across the organization.

This role blends a strong SRE mindset with cloud infrastructure and data platform experience, operating at scale in a hybrid cloud environment and collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and analysts.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps roles supporting data-intensive or ML-powered apps.
• Hands-on Databricks experience including workspace setup, cluster/job management, and CI/CD integration.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure on AWS (or similar).
• Proven expertise with observability tools (Datadog) and logging/monitoring solutions.
• Strong CI/CD tooling knowledge, esp. GitHub Actions, Terraform, and deployment automation for data systems.
• Shell scripting and Python proficiency.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Operate and Improve Databricks and Snowflake platforms lifecycle, including automation, governance, job orchestration, and cost optimization.
• Design for Reliability: build resilient, scalable, secure infra; plan failover and autoscaling.
• Advance Observability: implement platform-wide monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Drive CI/CD for Data & ML: automate deployments of data pipelines, ML workflows, and infra components.
• Enable Data Flow Across Platforms: support inter- and intra-cloud data movement across Snowflake, S3, Delta Lake, Kafka.
• Champion Event-Driven Architectures: use EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Lambda for scalable data systems.
• Collaborate Across Teams: act as SRE and platform partner for analytics, data science, and product teams.
• Contribute to Strategy: influence data platform architecture and ML enablement.

Skills

SRE experience

Databricks experience

Cloud infrastructure

Observability (Datadog)

CI/CD tooling

Shell scripting

Python

Team collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Databricks

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Job description

Datavant seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Data & ML Platform team. You will help build a resilient, observable, and scalable platform enabling data and ML workloads across the organization.

This role blends a strong SRE mindset with cloud infrastructure and data platform experience, operating at scale in a hybrid cloud environment and collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and analysts.