Sr Platform Engineer

Hershey Company; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Flexible working where applicable

Career development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to own end-to-end data and platform delivery.

You will design, build, deploy, and operate data pipelines, models, and platform components across development, test, and production environments. Collaborating with data engineers, solution architects, and security teams, you will improve reliability, observability, and cost transparency while enabling MLOps capabilities and governance across Hershey’s data platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering or platform engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS/Data Science or related field.
• Experience with Databricks and Azure data platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and support data pipelines, data models, and platform components.
• Translate requirements into scalable production-ready solutions across environments.
• Optimize queries, pipelines, clusters, storage, and compute resources for performance and cost efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, data quality controls, and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot data, integration, and platform issues; perform root-cause analysis.
• Strengthen governance, security, and MLOps with policy controls and guardrails.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Terraform

MLflow

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Note:If you apply for a role at Hershey through our career’s website, we may use technologies that use automation to filter your candidacy based on objective criteria. We also use AI-enabled tools that help us facilitate the selection of our future Hershey talent. These tools may help with activities such as matching and scoring candidates to roles based on requirements and scheduling interviews. These systems process only the information you provide in your application, including your resume, work history, education, and responses to screening questions. While these technologies assist with certain steps in our recruitment process and may provide recommendations, all final decisions, including those affecting whether candidates advance to subsequent stages in the applicant process, are made by our talent acquisition teams with meaningful human review and independent judgment. Depending on your location and the specific role you apply for, additional disclosures about our use of AI in recruitment may be provided to you separately.

Why Hershey:

At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.

Location: Dallas, TX or Hershey, PA

About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.

At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.

The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.

How will you fit in the big picture?

The Sr. Platform Engineer role combines end-to-end data pipeline delivery with the platform engineering capabilities that power Hershey’s enterprise data products. As a fully autonomous contributor, you will own features, datasets, pipelines, and shared platform components of moderate complexity across development, test, and production. Given defined business requirements, you will independently design, build, deploy, and operate reliable solutions while resolving technical ambiguity with minimal guidance.

You will help turn one-off solutions into reusable templates, guardrails, and automated workflows that improve reliability, observability, cost transparency, and developer experience. Partnering with Senior Data Engineers, Solution Architects, the Cloud COE, Security, Data Science, and Data Product teams, you will help keep Hershey’s data platform secure, scalable, governed, and easy to use.

What will you do?

Own End-to-End Data & Platform Delivery

• Design, build, deploy, and support data pipelines, data models, and platform components, leveraging Databricks and Azure services.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions across development, test, and production environments.

Improve Performance, Reliability & Observability

• Optimize queries, pipelines, clusters, storage, and compute resources to enhance performance and cost efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, data quality controls, and operational runbooks.
• Track key operational metrics, including availability, performance, deployment frequency, and recovery time, to drive continuous improvement.

Resolve Complex Data & Platform Issues

• Troubleshoot and resolve data, integration, performance, and platform issues.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement lasting solutions to improve platform stability and data integrity.

Strengthen Governance, Security & MLOps

• Implement governance, security, and compliance standards through policies, controls, access management, secrets management, and platform guardrails.
• Enable MLOps capabilities, including MLflow standards, deployment patterns, and automation in partnership with Data Science and Engineering teams.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, data integration, or a related technical field.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.

Technical Skills

• Experience with Databricks and Azure data platform services, including environment management, access controls, secrets management, and platform configuration.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation, pipeline development, and troubleshooting; familiarity with APIs, scripting, and Git.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and supporting release management best practices.
• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, incident management, data quality, and root-cause analysis.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred); familiarity with MLflow and MLOps practices is a plus.

Benefits and Perks

At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.

Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health

Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match

Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable

Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility

Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $115,520 to $144,400 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance‑based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability. You can request an accommodation via phone or email.

To request an accommodation via phone, please call [phone] and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to [e-mail]. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.