Staff Data Platform Engineer - Scalable Cloud Infra

Murmuration; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Murmuration is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to build opinionated data infrastructure that scales with partner needs. You’ll drive data store decisions, security, monitoring, and observability across multiple teams, while delivering reliable, scalable cloud data platforms.

This senior individual contributor role prioritizes engineering rigor, pragmatic judgment, and inclusive leadership to raise the organization’s data capabilities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating data platforms in the cloud.
• Ability to design, deploy, secure, monitor, and optimize databases.
• Strong judgment on data schemas and storage choices across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define data access and storage guidelines; promote best practices.
• Build reusable, opinionated infrastructure as code for data stores.
• Tune, right-size, and secure production data resources.
• Collaborate across engineering to shape the Data Platform roadmap.

Skills

Data platform design

Cloud databases

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Security best practices

NoSQL vs Relational

Mentoring / technical leadership

Job description

Murmuration is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to build opinionated data infrastructure that scales with partner needs. You’ll drive data store decisions, security, monitoring, and observability across multiple teams, while delivering reliable, scalable cloud data platforms.

This senior individual contributor role prioritizes engineering rigor, pragmatic judgment, and inclusive leadership to raise the organization’s data capabilities.