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Title: Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer - FedRAMP
Location: Austin, TX
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description
We’re looking for a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer to join Data Mesh Division working on our FedRAMP initiative. In this role, you’ll help build next-generation construction data platform for others to build upon, including developers, analysts, partners, and customers.
As a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll partner with other engineers and product managers across Product & Technology to develop data infrastructures that adhere to the highest security standards that power the applications. To be successful in this role, you’re passionate about cloud-based infrastructure and have hands-on experience building scalable and reliable data infrastructure. If you’re an engineer comfortable and excited about solving complex problems, pushing the boundaries of technical possibilities, and shaping the future of our next-generation data infrastructure —we’d love to hear from you!
This position reports to the Director of Data Mesh and will be based in our Austin, TX office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.
What you’ll do:
- Participate in the design and implementation of our data platform, primarily focused on database management, data lake operations, streaming, and batch data processing
- Lead our engineering team in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support; deliver value in an iterative and agile fashion
- Enable developers to quickly and effectively build and operate their software at scale by providing self-service data infrastructure capabilities
- Help identify and propose solutions for technical gaps in our data platform by managing proof of concepts and experiments
- Work alongside our Product, UX, and other engineering teams, leveraging your experience and expertise in the data space to influence our product roadmap, developing innovative solutions that add additional capabilities
- Coach, support, and uplevel teammates through providing regular feedback, mentorship, training, and other career development opportunities; as well as removing barriers to progress
- Stay up to date with the latest data technology trends
What we’re looking for:
- Solid understanding of operating relational and non-relational databases (i.e. PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Elastic Cache, DynamoDB, Mongo etc.) and streaming (Kafka, Flink), batch (Spark) technologies at scale and DataBricks
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment Tooling (CircleCI, Github, ArgoCD)
- 4 years of experience as a DBA/DBE in at least one of the database technologies cited above.
- 4 years of experience building and operating cloud-based, highly available, and scalable data platforms supporting large amounts of data at enterprise-grade companies serving millions of users
- Experience and proficiency in managing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
- Experience with AWS (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes & Container-based hosting strategies
- Understanding of data access patterns, site reliability engineering, security, and cost optimization
- Strong ability to lead and support others, influence platform decisions, and uplevel talent
- Strong passion for learning, always open to new technologies and ideas
