Staff Data Platform Engineer: Multi-Cloud Infra & Airflow

WEX Inc.; Washington (IL); Remote; USD 141,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to own our data orchestration and multi-cloud infrastructure. You will manage Airflow clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads across AWS and Azure, driving observability and cost optimization.

You will partner with Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Operations to deliver scalable data platforms, governance tooling, and robust production systems while mentoring teammates and shaping a 1–2 year platform roadmap.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Data Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE.
• Deep Airflow production experience and tuning in Kubernetes/Celery environments.
• Automation-first mindset with IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD expertise.
• Strong knowledge of Spark, Snowflake, Azure Synapse and related data tools.

Responsibilities

• Own Airflow infrastructure design, deployment, scaling, and reliability.
• Drive DevOps using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions for pipelines.
• Build and maintain observability with Grafana, Prometheus and Loki.
• Lead cost optimization and governance tooling across cloud platforms.
• Mentor junior engineers and shape the data platform roadmap.

Skills

Airflow expert

Container orchestration

DevOps automation

Observability & monitoring

Big data stack

Cloud FinOps

Governance tooling

Programming & scripting

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

DataHub

Snowflake

Azure Synapse

Apache Kafka

dbt

Job description

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to own our data orchestration and multi-cloud infrastructure. You will manage Airflow clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads across AWS and Azure, driving observability and cost optimization.

You will partner with Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Operations to deliver scalable data platforms, governance tooling, and robust production systems while mentoring teammates and shaping a 1–2 year platform roadmap.