Senior Data Platform Engineer, Vectra AI

• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or similar or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer owning data production platforms
• Strong applied software development experience; you've built, shipped, monitored, broken, and fixed software applications
• Experience with real time or near real time data processing, databases and data management
• Experience with an object oriented programming language (Python preferred)
• Strong fundamentals with data structures and algorithms
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with a source control system (git preferred)
• Experience with containerization or virtualization systems (Docker preferred)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS preferred)
• Debugging experience

Desirable

• We're looking for a talented and hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to help drive the technical vision and delivery of features in our Application Data Platform
• Our Application Data Platform is designed to offer both our internal developers as well as our customers a world class developer experience empowering engineering teams and customers alike to build the features that matter most
• The platform must support both analytical and operational use cases and presents interesting challenges across a variety of areas - data modeling, performance, scalability, etc
• You will work closely with Application Data Platform leadership to build and deliver our technical roadmap
• On any given day you could be writing a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a particular problem we're working on, working to deliver some of the most challenging and high-leverage parts of the platform, fixing bugs or optimizing code to deliver higher performance or better overall utilization, or mentoring other engineers within the organization
• Be comfortable designing production-grade pipelines and systems
• Be comfortable writing and deploying production-grade code on a daily basis
• Contribute to automated tests and other parts of end-to-end software delivery
• Work collaboratively with other teams and within the team with other engineers and product managers
• Mentor and lead by example more junior engineers, breaking up tasks for them while leading end-to-end projects
• Evaluate and identify the correct approaches or technologies to use to solve problems
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, handling production deployments and monitoring production systems