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snowflake postgresql databricks dbt kafka📋 Description
- Define multi-year architecture roadmaps for large-scale data ingestion and processing.
- Own end-to-end platform initiatives across Kafka-based streaming and Postgres systems.
- Partner with vendors (Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent) on integration and TCO modeling.
- Collaborate with teams to embed governance and compliance controls into platform architecture.
- Optimize infra spend at scale across compute, storage, and pipelines.
- Write architecture docs and memos to drive alignment with leadership.
🎯 Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with data lakehouse architectures (Iceberg/Delta/Hudi) and compute/storage trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience with distributed query/compute systems (Trino, Spark, ClickHouse) incl performance tuning.
- Proven depth in event-driven infrastructure: Kafka for ingestion and Flink for stream processing at scale.
- Track record owning major platform transitions, migration design, and risk management.
- Experience building business cases for infra investments: cost-benefit and TCO modeling.
🎁 Benefits
- Remote-friendly with flexible work locations.
- Flex First remote work policy.
- Equity grants and annual refresh grants.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunity to work across data governance and infra teams.
- Team events and growth opportunities.
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