Senior Engineer, Data Platform

Role overview Help build a unified data platform that ingests, stores, and exposes information for product, analytics, and machine learning use cases. You’ll improve how data moves across systems, modernize legacy pipelines, and establish governance and reliability practices for a multi-tenant environment.

Responsibilities - Design and deliver data ingestion pipelines and the infrastructure that supports them. - Guide migrations from legacy data lifecycle systems while preserving service for existing consumers. - Define service indicators and objectives, then build dashboards and alerts to track platform performance. - Create flexible storage capabilities for transactional, analytical, and machine learning workloads. - Improve monitoring, observability, and incident response across data pipelines and services. - Work with product engineering, analytics, and machine learning teams to establish requirements, data contracts, and standards. - Build metadata capabilities that classify and describe data assets to support discovery, access policies, and reuse. - Develop a multi-tenant data model with secure client isolation and controls for regulatory requirements.

Requirements - Strong grounding in data governance and lifecycle management, including quality, lineage, retention, and access control. - Experience selecting and operating OLTP and OLAP technologies, including production-scale data warehouse systems, and strong SQL skills. - Ability to design complex systems around reusable components and changing product needs. - Experience running data systems on AWS or GCP, including multi-cloud environments. - Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes, and experience connecting legacy platforms to modern architectures through migration plans and interfaces. - Clear communication skills for design discussions, architectural documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

Nice to have - Elixir, Airflow, Kafka, Flink, or hands-on experience with columnar databases such as Databricks or ClickHouse. - Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or a similar tool.

Benefits and work setup - The listed base salary range is CAD $145,000–$185,000, with a possible bonus and a range of medical, financial, and other benefits. The offer may vary with relevant skills and experience.