Staff Data Platform Engineer – AI/ML Pipelines & Governance

robotsandpencils; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 130.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

robotsandpencils is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to set technical direction for enterprise data platforms, including lakes, warehouses, and pipelines. The role blends hands-on engineering with architecture decisions, platform modernization, and mentorship for data foundations powering production AI/ML systems.

You will design scalable data architectures, enforce governance and data quality, and automate deployments while collaborating with product, analytics, AI, backend, and platform

Formación

• At least seven years of data engineering experience, including leadership of complex platform initiatives.
• Strong distributed systems and architecture background with cloud data platforms, warehouses, orchestration, and data modeling.
• Expert in Python, Scala, and SQL; experience with streaming systems and real-time processing.
• Experience with governance, data quality, container orchestration, and CI/CD for data systems.
• Delivery of production AI/ML data pipelines and experience with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder communication, and sound judgment in ambiguity.
• Nice to have: data mesh/fabric, lakehouse architectures, or governance framework implementation.

Responsabilidades

• Design and build scalable data architectures and batch or streaming pipelines, balancing reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Establish data quality, governance, compliance, and data contract practices across platforms and teams.
• Develop pipeline monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and integrations with APIs and external systems.
• Build data flows for AI and ML workloads, including embeddings, vector stores, retrieval-augmented generation, feature stores, and training or inference data.
• Guide platform strategy with technical and business stakeholders, make consequential architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers.
• Set engineering standards and collaborate with product, analytics, AI, backend, and platform teams.

Conocimientos

Python

Scala

SQL

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Leadership

Data governance

CI/CD

AI/ML pipelines

Cloud data platforms

Descripción del empleo

robotsandpencils is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to set technical direction for enterprise data platforms, including lakes, warehouses, and pipelines. The role blends hands-on engineering with architecture decisions, platform modernization, and mentorship for data foundations powering production AI/ML systems.

You will design scalable data architectures, enforce governance and data quality, and automate deployments while collaborating with product, analytics, AI, backend, and platform