Senior SRE - Data & ML Platform: Scale & Resilience

Datavant; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Data & ML Platform team. You’ll build and operate a resilient, observable, and scalable platform for data and ML workloads across the organization.

This role suits someone with a strong SRE mindset, cloud infrastructure experience, and data platform expertise. You’ll work with Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering to keep systems secure, self-service, and production-grade.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps roles supporting data-intensive apps.
• AI-native working style with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot.
• Hands-on Databricks experience, including clusters and CI/CD integration.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native infra on AWS or similar.
• Observability expertise and platform-wide logging/monitoring design.
• Strong CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform for data systems.
• Shell scripting and Python proficiency.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Databricks and Snowflake platforms lifecycle, including governance and cost optimization.
• Design for reliability across cloud environments with failover and autoscaling.
• Advance observability with monitoring, alerting, and logging; define SLOs/SLAs.
• Drive CI/CD for data and ML workflows using GitHub Actions and IaC tooling.
• Enable data flow across platforms including Snowflake, S3, Delta Lake, Kafka.
• Champion event-driven architectures using EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Lambda.
• Collaborate across teams as platform partner for analytics, data science, and product use cases.
• Contribute to strategy on data platform architecture and ML enablement.

Skills

SRE mindset

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

CI/CD tooling

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

EventBridge

Lambda

S3

Kafka

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Data & ML Platform team. You’ll build and operate a resilient, observable, and scalable platform for data and ML workloads across the organization.

This role suits someone with a strong SRE mindset, cloud infrastructure experience, and data platform expertise. You’ll work with Data Scientists, Analysts, and App Engineering to keep systems secure, self-service, and production-grade.