Senior Platform Engineer, Collibra
Data intelligence cloud
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Data intelligence cloud
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To change how organizations use data, so that they can change the world.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or softwar engineering roles with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, OR equivalent practical experience demonstrating the skills below
- Proven experience designing, building, and managing production services using Kubernetes and gitops / IaC at a scale of between tens and hundreds of Kubernetes clusters
- Experience managing production workloads and infrastructure on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters and managing containerized services in production
- Demonstrable experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably with Terraform, and proficiency in Golang for controller and automation development
- Preferred skills: CKA / CKAD, Istio, ArgoCD, deep experience with networks, linux and Kubernetes, experience with monitoring/logging tools and observability spans / traces (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb), and proficient in creating Golang controllers and other automation patterns to manage Kubernetes resources
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required
- Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot) to solve real-world business challenges, drive measurable outcomes, or streamline workflows
- Experienced in applying systematic troubleshooting and critical thinking to diagnose root causes within distributed cloud infrastructure and propose effective solutions
- Able to demonstrate initiative in learning and utilizing evolving technologies related to cloud platforms, container orchestration, GitOps, IaC and automation
- An effective communicator in articulating complex technical details, designs, and trade-offs clearly to both technical peers and potentially other stakeholders within a distributed team setting
- Possess a mindset geared towards efficiency, proactively seeking and evaluating ways to automate manual processes and improve system reliability
- Independently manage and complete assigned work, ensuring deliverables consistently meet defined requirements and acceptance criteria
What the job involves
- Become a key member of Collibra's Platform Infrastructure Engineering team, reporting to the Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineering Manager. This team builds and operates the essential cloud foundation for all Collibra services
- In this role, your contribution is critical as we evolve our multi-cloud, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Helm), Golang controllers and automation, and GitOps infrastructure environment for maximum efficiency and resilience, directly impacting Collibra's operational excellence
- Guided by our value of "Embrace and Drive Change," we foster a collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement that never settles long for good enough, offering you a dynamic environment to advance your technical skills and make a tangible difference
- Platform Contribution: Contribute to the overall architecture of the platform infrastructure, collaborating with other infrastructure engineers using GitOps, IaC and Kubernetes
- Developer Enablement: develop and operate shared data platform services (operators in Go, Kafka, Neo4j, and related infrastructure) in order to provide scalable, reliable, and self-service data capabilities for product and analytics teams
- Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex service issues, implement security best practices, and maintain clear documentation (architecture, procedures)
- Collaboration: Partner with product engineering, security, and SRE teams in order to drive adoption of platform best practices and ensure secure, compliant, and resilient architectures across AWS and GCP
- Continuous Improvement: Stay current with platform engineering trends and infrastructure automation, identifying and implementing improvements
- Within your first month, you’ll gain exposure to our technical environment and meet the teams you’ll be consistently partnering with
- Within your third month, you’ll independently execute assigned tasks accurately, demonstrating understanding of core platform technologies (Cloud, K8s, Operators, IaC, GitOps) and team workflows
- Within your sixth month, you will be participating in key initiatives, alongside delivering reliable mid-complexity infrastructure improvements, driving towards reduction of complexity through refactoring existing automations
Our take
Collibra wants to help firms understand data governance. As companies gather ever more data, Collibra helps them understand what data they have, who has access to it and how to move it through a workflow of data analysis tools.
Historically, large corporations have not thought much about the data they collect and how to use it. In this day and age, however, data is super valuable, so everyone wants to make the most of it, which has made businesses turn to products such as Collibra's. The company has secured many big-name clients, including T-Mobile, Lloyds Banking, and Equifax.
The company's growth has been helped by increasing data privacy legislation like GDPR, which means companies have a legal obligation to be in control of the data they're collecting and giving their employees access to. In 2022, the company was named an Innovation Summit Honoree by the Bank of America’s annual Technology Innovation Summit. It has continued to add new features and integrations to maintain its offering's premium status, including a new data marketplace, which provides a shopping-like experience from which users can access a company’s internal datasets.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES G
Apr 2020
$112.5m
SERIES F
Total funding: $605m
Company benefits
- {Be}Healthy: Healthcare for yourself and eligible dependents (inclusive of partners/domestic partners), mental health resources and care, tax-advantaged accounts, income protection, discount programs and more! Additionally, we encourage employees to treat their whole self by offering a bi-monthly calendar of events and programming dedicated to our {Be}well initiatives which focus on wellbeing areas including emotional, professional & social, financial, physical, allyship & belonging and giving back.
- {Be}With Family: We offer multiple types of leave so that you can spend time with loved ones, including parental leave, caregiver leave and our annual family day. These are all complementary to our culture in which we value output over hours.
- {Be}Kind: Collibra For Good, Unconscious Bias & Allyship training, Manager Racial Injustice training and Collibra-led fundraisers.
- {Be}Unplugged: Our paid time off programs include vacation, holidays, sick time and compassionate/bereavement leave. We also offer remote-friendly meditation sessions and cooking lessons – all of which you’re actively encouraged to use!
- {Be}Informed: Competitive compensation, bonus potential, private company equity, merit reviews and promotion cycles, company pension, discounts programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, employee referral program, employee rewards & recognition, development programs and more!
- {Be}Together: Community and belonging with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and personal interest groups, ERG-driven events, speaker series, and celebrations, a dedicated DEI council, the virtual Collibra cafe, trivia, bingo games and much more.
- When in-person (office) life resumes, we look forward to more snacks, catered lunches, team offsites and social events (think holiday gift exchange, fundraising events, happy hours, celebrations and more)!
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Felix Van De Maele
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously studied Computer Science and founded Collibra straight after university.
Pieter De Leenheer
(Co-Founder)CTO at 1upHealth. Started Collibra after completing a PhD in Computer Science. Also held the post of Professor of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam. Board Observer at Zenoptics.
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