Staff Data Warehouse Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office 3–4 days per week

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced data platform engineer to own and operate our end-to-end data warehouse infrastructure. You will design CDC pipelines, manage data lake architectures, and optimize query and storage costs while sustaining HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.

You will work with Debezium, Kafka/Redpanda, and StarRocks or similar engines, building dbt models and orchestration with Airflow or Dagster in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building or operating data platforms at scale.
• Experience with CDC, Debezium or equivalent.
• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka/Redpanda).
• Experience with data lake formats (Iceberg/Delta Lake/Hudi).

Responsibilities

• Own data warehouse platform end-to-end.
• Design and operate low-latency CDC pipelines.
• Architect a data lake on object storage.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and observability tooling.

Skills

CDC Pipeline Development

SQL Proficiency

Data Platform Architecture

Cost/Latency Trade-offs

Tools

Debezium

Kafka

Redpanda

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Hudi

StarRocks

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced data platform engineer to own and operate our end-to-end data warehouse infrastructure. You will design CDC pipelines, manage data lake architectures, and optimize query and storage costs while sustaining HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.

You will work with Debezium, Kafka/Redpanda, and StarRocks or similar engines, building dbt models and orchestration with Airflow or Dagster in a cloud environment.