Staff Data Platform Engineer

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.