[Remote] Senior Data Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 1Password is a rapidly growing company that has surpassed $400M in ARR and is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build a next-generation data platform that enables near real-time access to data for analysts, engineers, and business users across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a streaming-first data platform built on Apache Kafka, Protobuf, and Apache Iceberg, enabling near real-time data availability across the organization
• Build and operate a hybrid Databricks and Snowflake architecture: leveraging Databricks for data engineering, streaming processing, and AI/ML workloads, and Snowflake as the governed serving layer for analytics and business reporting
• Own the unified storage layer to ensure all consumers operate on a consistent and governed data foundation
• Champion platform standards, tooling, and best practices across the data organization

Skills

• You have a passion for designing, implementing, and operating stable, scalable, and efficient data systems
• Deep experience with streaming architectures and event-driven data pipelines
• Strong focus on schema governance, data quality, and data lifecycle management
• Proven track record of architecting, building, deploying, and supporting scalable production systems across 7+ years of experience
• Enjoys leading through individual technical contribution while mentoring and supporting the growth of other data platform engineers
• Strong commitment to software engineering and data infrastructure best practices
• Curiosity and interest in emerging AI technologies and applications
• Prefer BS, MS, or Ph. D. in Computer Science with 7+ years of proven relevant industry experience
• 5+ years experience working on Cloud Platforms (AWS primarily or GCP) and open-source technologies supporting data infrastructure, platforms & tools
• 5+ years experience with Big Data query engines & data stores such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc
• Great communication skills capable of working cross functionally with different teams in Engineering and prioritizing critical needs for Data Platform
• Experience programming, building and deploying products that rely on large-scale distributed systems in Python, Go, Scala/Java, or other similar languages
• 5+ years experience with large-scale, distributed systems design and development with an understanding of scaling, replication, consistency, and high availability
• 5+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with compute layer like EC2, ECS, EKS or similar
• Implementing secure systems/datastores with least privilege access (e.g. IAM) and encryption
• Experience using streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, etc
• Implementing quality monitoring/alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
• Experience with Dagster or other orchestration tooling
• Experience with data modelling tooling such as dbt

Benefits

• Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
• Utilization of our generous paid time off
• An equity grant
• Participation in our incentive programs
• Immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others)
• Utilization of our generous paid time off
• An equity grant
• Participation in our incentive programs
• Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, pension, and many others)
• Utilization of our generous paid time off
• An equity grant
• Participation in our incentive programs
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Competitive health benefits
• Generous PTO policy
• RSU program for most employees
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• Remote-first work environment

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