Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer

Description:

• The position is for a Senior Data Platform Engineer based in the UK, with options for remote or hybrid work.
• The salary ranges from £65,000 to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• The role involves owning and extending the data platform to build customer pipelines quickly and safely.
• Responsibilities include designing, coding, and maintaining core platform services and internal Python libraries, as well as developing and operating data pipelines.
• The engineer will create and optimize complex Dagster jobs, DBT models, and BigQuery workflows, and write new Airbyte connectors in Python.
• The role requires building and maintaining service interfaces using FastAPI REST services and managing infrastructure in Kubernetes.
• The engineer will manage event flows with Google Pub/Sub and ensure SLO dashboards are operational in the Grafana/Loki stack.
• The position emphasizes observability and reliability, including instrumenting pipelines with logs, metrics, and traces, leading incident responses, and automating fixes.
• Collaboration across the company is essential, including working with Data Ops engineers and Product managers.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have solid Python engineering skills, including idiomatic code, testing, packaging, and CI/CD.
• Experience using Kubernetes, including Helm, pod debugging, and cluster logs, is required.
• Familiarity with modern data stacks such as Airbyte, Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery is preferred.
• Candidates should be comfortable with SQL for analysis and debugging, and have exposure to pub/sub or streaming systems like GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or Kinesis.
• A bias for automation, observability, and clean documentation is necessary.
• Experience delivering end-to-end data pipelines or platform services from design through deployment is required.
• Evidence of technical leadership or architecture ownership is essential.
• Comfort with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi and cost/performance tuning in GCP (or AWS/Azure) is needed.
• Experience designing large-scale, mission-critical data platforms is required.
• A collaborative working style, including mentoring engineers and leading incident response or performance initiatives, is important.

Benefits:

• The company offers a monthly Health & Wellness budget that increases with length of service.
• An annual Learning and Development budget is provided, which also increases with length of service.
• Flexible working arrangements are available in a choice-first environment.
• A Work From Home Allowance is provided, renewing every two years.
• Employees receive 25 holiday days plus local bank holidays, with an additional day for each year of service.
• Employees get their birthday off.
• Enhanced Family Leave, Fertility Leave, and Neonatal Leave are available for UK employees.
• An optional Healthcare Plan is offered.
• Life and income protection benefits are location dependent.
• An Employee Assistance Programme is available for UK employees.
• There is an opportunity to share in the company’s success through options.
• For those in London, there is a dog-friendly office with great classes, events, and a rooftop terrace.