Staff Data Platform Engineer – Scale Data Pipelines

United States Digital Space LLC; West Covina (CA); Hybrid; USD 247,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The company is hiring a Staff Engineer to own data plumbing for its analytics platform. You will design and implement the next generation data movement from production databases to analytical stores, shaping an enterprise lakehouse with Iceberg on S3 and a modern ingestion stack.

You will lead cross‑team data initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability with SLOs and on‑call, while partnering with data scientists and analysts to drive impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• You've built and run data infrastructure that other teams depended on, at meaningful scale.
• Deep experience with change data capture and streaming ingestion from operational databases through Kafka.
• Hands‑on experience with lakehouse architectures on an open table format (Iceberg on S3).
• Strong Spark skills, and experience with Databricks and Snowflake.
• Experience with data quality and observability (Anomalo or Monte Carlo).
• Experience operating Airflow at scale and with Fivetran.
• Strong SQL and data modeling instincts.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one of Kotlin/Java/Scala/Go; AWS with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for data movement into analytical stores and own the roadmap.
• Build CDC and streaming ingestion: CockroachDB changefeeds and MySQL binlogs into Kafka and Iceberg on S3.
• Implement data contracts and quality checks across the platform.
• Establish data ownership, SLAs, and data quality monitoring with tools like Anomalo or Monte Carlo.
• Run Airflow and Fivetran effectively; balance build vs buy decisions.
• Own platform reliability: SLOs, on-call, incident reviews, and cross‑team migrations.
• Mentor engineers and guide cross‑team data initiatives to successful completion.

Skills

Change data capture

Streaming ingestion

Spark

SQL

Python

Leadership

Data governance

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Fivetran

Airflow

Databricks

Snowflake

Iceberg

S3

Kubernetes

Terraform

CockroachDB

MySQL

Job description

The company is hiring a Staff Engineer to own data plumbing for its analytics platform. You will design and implement the next generation data movement from production databases to analytical stores, shaping an enterprise lakehouse with Iceberg on S3 and a modern ingestion stack.

You will lead cross‑team data initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability with SLOs and on‑call, while partnering with data scientists and analysts to drive impact across the organization.