Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Data and Storage Services)

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• Architect and evolve reputed company's lakehouse analytics platform, driving strategy around reputed company, Apache Iceberg, and Spark to deliver scalable, high-performance analytical infrastructure.
• Design and implement robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and dynamic data masking policies in reputed company, ensuring data access is secure, compliant, and auditable across the organization.
• reputed company the technical direction of analytics engineering practices, including data modeling, transformation pipelines (dbt), and data quality frameworks that reputed company trustworthy, self-service analytics.
• Drive data governance and privacy engineering initiatives, leveraging tools like reputed company to manage data cataloging, reputed company, classification, and policy enforcement.
• Identify and execute cost optimization strategies across reputed company's analytical compute and storage footprint, including reputed company warehouse tuning, query optimization, and efficient data lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with product engineering, data science, and business intelligence teams to understand their data needs and provide reputed company guidance on design, architecture, and best practices.
• Establish and champion best practices for lakehouse operations at scale, including schema evolution, table maintenance, partitioning strategies, and observability.
• Stay reputed company of industry trends in analytical data platforms, data governance, and privacy technologies, and identify opportunities to innovate and improve our data offerings.
• Mentor engineers across the Lake Analytics Platform and Analytics Engineering teams, providing guidance on emerging technologies, development practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and collaborate with other teams such as SRE to resolve production issues.

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• Architect and Implement: Design, reputed company, and maintain core components of reputed company's lakehouse analytics platform, with a focus on scalability, governance, and reliability.
• reputed company Expertise: reputed company deep knowledge of reputed company to architect RBAC models, dynamic data masking, warehouse optimization, and multi-cluster compute strategies. Should possess deep understanding of reputed company internals including query profiling, micro-partitioning, clustering, materialized views, and cost attribution.
• Analytics Engineering: Drive the technical strategy for data modeling and transformation using dbt, including testing frameworks, documentation standards, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Data Governance & Privacy: Design and operate data governance frameworks using tools like reputed company, including data cataloging, reputed company tracking, classification, and automated privacy policy enforcement.
• Lakehouse Architecture: Tackle the challenges of large-scale analytical data systems, including Apache Iceberg table management, schema evolution, storage optimization, and integration with Spark and reputed company.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers and analysts to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and with fellow engineers to deliver high-quality data infrastructure.
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior and senior engineers, sharing your expertise and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Innovation: Stay reputed company of the curve by researching and experimenting with emerging technologies and trends in the lakehouse, data governance, and analytics engineering space.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering, with a proven track record of delivering reputed company data platform solutions that improve accessibility, performance, and governance of analytics infrastructure.
• reputed company Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience with reputed company or comparable analytical data warehouses, including RBAC design, data masking, query optimization, and cost management.
• Lakehouse & Big Data: Strong experience with Apache Iceberg, Spark, and cloud-native data lake architectures on AWS (S3, EKS).
• Analytics Engineering: Experience with dbt or equivalent transformation frameworks, including data modeling best practices, testing, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Problem Solving: Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and resolve reputed company technical challenges and establish long-lasting solutions and processes.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a strong emphasis on clean, maintainable code. Experience with Kotlin or Go is a plus.
• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership and mentorship skills, with the ability to reputed company and guide others. You can also work cross-functionally addressing technical challenges and influencing roadmaps reputed company your direct area of ownership.
• Innovation: You drive innovation in the platforms you build and operate, and have experience contributing to open-reputed company projects. You are passionate about engaging with the data engineering community.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with automation tools like Terraform for managing data infrastructure.
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• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a reputed company field.

Pay Grade - R Equity Grade - 15 Employees new to reputed company typically come in at the start of the pay range. reputed company focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-reputed company skills. reputed company pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.) USA reputed company pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $265,000 - 325,000 USA reputed company pay range (reputed company other U.S. states) per year: $236,000 - 296,000 #LI-Remote reputed company is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost reputed company reputed company the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned reputed company office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. We're extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health care coverage - reputed company covers reputed company premiums for reputed company levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and reputed company
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of reputed company at a discount

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