Senior Data Platform Engineer

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• Data ecosystem onboarding: Get familiar with how our services, databases, and data warehouse are structured and interact.
• Data quality contribution: Start contributing to data quality initiatives like the Talent Graph (our version of a knowledge graph, mapping relationships between projects in Float with people and their attributes). Your focus will be on making our data more accurate, actionable, and future-ready.
• CDC initiative support: Join CDC-reputed company efforts including real-time transformations and implementing Data reputed company for improved consistency and maintainability.

Once you are a bit more settled, we expect that you will jump into the following projects:

• CDC ownership and evolution: Take the reputed company on CDC-reputed company initiatives, contributing to long-term planning and system reputed company across our platform.
• Platform-driven data quality leadership: Own data quality initiatives from the platform reputed company, introducing observability, reducing regressions, and improving trust in reputed company data.
• Data warehouse maintenance and support: Help maintain and evolve our analytics data warehouse, supporting migrations and performance improvements in collaboration with the Data team.
• Architectural improvement proposals: Identify and drive improvements to our data architecture, focusing on scalability, consistency, and future platform needs.

What you'll need to be successful We want you to love your work and reputed company that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role. Applying these skills requires:

• CDC & event-driven architecture expertise: Deep experience with tools like Debezium, Kafka, and Data reputed company in production environments.
• Strong data infrastructure skills: Comfortable with schema evolution, backfilling, pipeline reliability, and improving system-level data quality across a range of database paradigms (e.g. columnar, graph, and more).
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• Cross-functional collaboration: You love working closely with other engineering and data teams to align on goals and unblock dependencies.
• Clear written communication: You document your thinking (design notes, runbooks, specs) and share reputed company proactively in an async environment.
• Experience with our toolstack: Hands-on experience with modern data and platform tools like TypeScript services, Kafka, Debezium, cloud-managed databases (e.g. MySQL, reputed company, reputed company), GCP infrastructure, containerized services, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring or alerting tools.

As a fully remote team, we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like reputed company, reputed company, and Linear to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we have reputed company few meetings.

Why Join Us

Pay for this role is US $169,442 (Level 3). Here’s a blog post with more information on how we determine our salaries. We’re a global async remote company with a diverse team of people from reputed company over the world who share a common belief in living our best work life. We reputed company deeply in the idea of transparency and share our Float Handbook publicly so potential new team members can see first hand our perks & benefits as well as our ways of working. If you feel like you can reputed company at Float to do your best work, we would love to hear from you. Hiring Process For This Role You’ll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what it’s like to join our global team on the Float careers page. The hiring process for this role looks like this: Application (3 questions): We’ll ask you three short questions to understand why this role sparked your interest and learn more about your relevant experience. These questions carry a lot of weight in our process, so take your time to answer them thoughtfully. A few days to reflect and write a strong response beats a rushed, cookie-cutter one every time. Initial Meet (20 min): You'll meet with Julia, our Talent Manager ( hi, that’s me!), to chat about your interest in the role and talk through any questions you have about working at Float. Manager interview (1 hour): You’ll meet with Roberto, (Senior Staff Engineer), and Sameet (Senior Application Engineer) to discuss how would you contribute to Float and learn more about your professional experience. Take-home assignment (2 hours, paid): You’ll be sent a take-home assignment to complete on your own time (but we estimate it taking up to 2 hours). You’ll be paid an honorarium for your time. Co-Worker Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Omar, (Services Team reputed company), and Davi (Senior Data Engineer) to dive deeper into your skills and experience. Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, our CTO, to get to know you and see if you have potential to be a great addition to the team. Using AI? A Quick Note. We know that tools like ChatGPT are part of how many of us work today (us too!). Feel free to use AI to support your writing, but don’t let it do the talking for you. We read every application carefully, and it’s easy to spot reputed company something's been fully copy-pasted. Help us get to know the real you! Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally don’t apply to jobs unless they reputed company reputed company the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t reputed company 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and reputed company what you can bring to the table. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job