Staff Data Platform Engineer - Scalable Pipelines

reflectionai

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation
Stock options
Health & wellness
Meals provided
22 weeks parental leave
Unlimited vacation (US)
Visa sponsorship
Team off-sites

Job summary

Reflection is seeking a data engineer to build the core data systems and pipelines powering research, training, and production environments. You will design scalable ingestion and orchestration for batch and streaming workloads, and develop the storage and compute foundations that enable reproducible experimentation.

Join a team focused on data quality, governance, and a unified data backbone for world-class open AI systems.

Qualifications

  • Strong data engineering background with production-grade pipelines.
  • Experience designing and owning end-to-end data systems for large-scale workloads.
  • Comfortable debugging pipeline failures, optimizing cost and performance, and maintaining data quality.
  • Collaborative, clear communicator across research and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate core data systems and pipelines powering research, training, and production.
  • Design reliable, scalable ingestion and orchestration for batch and streaming workloads.
  • Develop storage and compute foundations enabling reproducible experimentation.
  • Drive data quality and governance standards trusted for production decisions.

Skills

Data engineering
Production-grade pipelines
Cost/performance optimization
Collaborative communication
Zero to one development

Tools

Spark
Flink
Beam
Airflow
Dagster
Kafka
PubSub
Parquet
Iceberg
Delta Lake
BigQuery
Snowflake

Job description

Reflection is seeking a data engineer to build the core data systems and pipelines powering research, training, and production environments. You will design scalable ingestion and orchestration for batch and streaming workloads, and develop the storage and compute foundations that enable reproducible experimentation.

Join a team focused on data quality, governance, and a unified data backbone for world-class open AI systems.

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