Staff Data Platform Engineer — Scalable Data Warehouse

Fireworks; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Data Platform to design and maintain scalable data infrastructure and frameworks. You will own our warehouse, ETL orchestrator, data governance, and data quality framework, enabling domain data engineers to build pipelines and business users to access data.

The role focuses on scalable data models, production reliability, and GDPR/CCPA compliance, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to shape data tooling standards across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data platform or data infrastructure engineering.
• Experience administering a cloud data warehouse at scale, including performance tuning and cost management.
• Experience operating ETL orchestration or transformation frameworks in production (Airflow, Coalesce, dbt or similar).
• Proficiency in Python (or a similar language) for building data tooling and automation.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code.
• Experience being on-call for data systems and responding to production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the warehouse scales, queries are performant, and cost is under control.
• Contribute to data architecture principles, ensuring our data model stays organized as it scales up.
• Ensure data ingestion and ETL orchestration works reliably and efficiently.
• Manage access controls to balance least-permissions policies with the speed of the business growth.
• Ensure our data quality framework effectively protects the accuracy of critical data our business depends on.
• Ensure our data platform complies with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, including PII classification, data retention, and data subject deletion requests.
• Quickly and efficiently resolve any incidents impacting production, conduct postmortems, and identify improvements to ensure reliable operations.

Skills

Python proficiency

On-call production support

Cloud data warehouse tuning

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Terraform

GCP BigQuery

Job description

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Data Platform to design and maintain scalable data infrastructure and frameworks. You will own our warehouse, ETL orchestrator, data governance, and data quality framework, enabling domain data engineers to build pipelines and business users to access data.

The role focuses on scalable data models, production reliability, and GDPR/CCPA compliance, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to shape data tooling standards across the company.