Staff Data Platform Engineer

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Los Angeles / $180000 - $230000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$180000 - $230000

Location

LOCATION

Los Angeles

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Salary: $180-230k base

We're partnering with a fast-scaling, mission-driven advanced technology company building complex software and hardware systems deployed in real-world environments. Their platform processes and operationalizes high-volume data to power critical decision-making across the organization.

They are hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform to shape the long-term architecture and direction of the company's data ecosystem.

The Role

At the Staff level, you will operate as a technical leader across the data platform, responsible for both delivery and direction. You will:

  • Define and lead the roadmap for the data platform architecture
  • Design scalable ingestion, transformation, and data service frameworks
  • Establish engineering standards across data modeling, testing, CI/CD, and security
  • Partner with senior stakeholders across operations, product, and engineering to align platform capabilities with business needs
  • Drive architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, and maintainability
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
  • Take ownership of debugging and resolving complex system-level data issues

What They're Looking For

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or platform engineering
  • Strong expertise in Python or similar programming languages
  • Deep experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL, and dbt
  • Proven experience shaping scalable data architectures in cloud environments
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to influence technical direction
  • Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact initiatives
  • Clear communication skills and ability to partner with technical and non-technical leaders
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to export-controlled information requirements

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity to define and scale the data backbone of a high-growth, technically ambitious organization.

CONTACT

Joshua Poore

Associate Director

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