Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer

Description:

• Honor is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems and infrastructure.
• The data platform engineering team is responsible for building and managing the infrastructure, core services, tools, and platforms that enable data storage, processing, and access across Honor.
• This role is highly technical and hands-on, requiring extensive experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services.
• Candidates should have deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns and architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes.
• The engineer will collaborate closely with Data Analytics and Data Science teams, as well as partner with Platform Engineering and Product Engineering teams.
• The ideal candidate should be driven by providing business value and comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity.
• The role offers an opportunity to create a significant impact in the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have at least 5 years of professional experience in an engineering function with a strong understanding of challenges in a data organization.
• Experience in software, platform, or data engineering is required.
• The candidate should be able to design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications across various data-focused technologies.
• Proficiency in utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups is necessary.
• Experience in designing and implementing infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and data pipelines managed by tools such as Airflow is required.
• Candidates must develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Experience in automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management, is essential.
• The candidate should be able to instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance.
• Candidates must have the ability to scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing costs effectively.
• A passion for delivering a turn-key developer experience for local development is important.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills tailored to a variety of audiences are required.

Benefits:

• Honor offers a competitive salary range of $171,500 - $190,000 USD for this position.
• The total rewards program includes equity and a 401K plan with up to a 4% match.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage is provided, including zero-cost plans for employees.
• Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance are fully employer-paid, with an option for additional voluntary Life Insurance.
• A generous time-off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program are included.
• The company is remote-friendly, allowing employees to work from home, with virtual interview and onboarding processes.