Senior Staff Software Engineer: Cloud & Data Platform Lead

Publicis Groupe; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Epsilon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead and expand the PeopleCloud Platform across data flows, APIs, and automation. You’ll own feature development, testing, and maintenance, while enforcing best practices and driving insights from large data sets.

Expect collaboration with leadership and cross‑functional teams to ship scalable solutions. The role emphasizes distributed architecture, coding excellence, and hands-on development in a fast-paced agile environment, with

Qualifications

• 12+ years hands-on software engineering
• 6+ years in a cloud deployment
• Must have experience leading/mentoring engineering teams
• Highly skilled in at least one programming language (Python, Java, or Scala)
• Proficient understanding of cloud computing, distributed computing and scalability principles
• Must have practical knowledge of at least one major cloud service (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Expertise in data warehousing, data streaming, and relational databases
• Strong understanding of SQL
• Experience with containers in Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in Test Driven Development Practices
• Experience with spec driven AI assisted development

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and architecture leadership to plan for new features, architect solutions, develop API data services, and monitor platform reliability
• Write code and maintain/enforce coding standards
• Involves multi‑project responsibilities and multitasking
• Collaborate with QA to define test cases and resolve code issues
• Identify opportunities for optimization by eliminating redundancies and improving automation
• Lead engineering team during technical discussions, planning, and code reviews
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product managers and product support teams
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors/teams to drive architectural enhancements
• Lead communities of practice across software teams to adopt new technologies
• Oversee, motivate and mentor a small team of developers

Skills

Cloud deployment experience

Engineering team leadership

Programming: Python/Java/Scala

Agile / collaboration

AI concepts familiarity

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or EE

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Workflows

Live Tables

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

CI/CD tools

Job description

Epsilon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead and expand the PeopleCloud Platform across data flows, APIs, and automation. You’ll own feature development, testing, and maintenance, while enforcing best practices and driving insights from large data sets.

Expect collaboration with leadership and cross‑functional teams to ship scalable solutions. The role emphasizes distributed architecture, coding excellence, and hands-on development in a fast-paced agile environment, with