Staff Data Platform Engineer

3 weeks, 1 day ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Honor

Honor

Honor is a company that is revolutionizing the way society cares for older adults by providing highly trained Care Professionals who offer compassionate home care services. Through their flagship brand, Home Instead, they are tackling the challenge of ...

Health Care Providers & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$625M raised

Description

  • Lead the architecture and development of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data platforms on AWS.
  • Architect and optimize the data warehouse for analytical, operational, and AI-driven workloads.
  • Define and implement Infrastructure-as-Code standards using AWS CDK.
  • Design and operate scalable data orchestration frameworks using Airflow and Fivetran.
  • Partner with the Data Analytics team to establish data modeling and transformation practices using dbt.
  • Build reusable data pipelines and workflows that support rapid development and reliable operation.
  • Establish governance, metadata, lineage, and access patterns that make data discoverable and trustworthy.
  • Define safe data access approaches for both employees and AI-powered systems.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, observability, and data quality frameworks to improve reliability and confidence in business-critical data.
  • Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams and provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, pipelines, and warehouses in cloud environments, with deep expertise in AWS.
  • Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade systems.
  • Deep expertise in modern data warehousing, ELT/ETL architectures, and data platform design.
  • Experience operating data platforms with a focus on reliability, observability, data quality, and cost optimization.
  • Proven ability to leverage modern AI-assisted and agentic development tools to architect, build, and operate production-grade systems.
  • Experience partnering with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and software engineers to deliver business impact.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, drive alignment, and lead through influence rather than authority.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python, Amazon Redshift, AWS-native ETL technologies including ZeroETL and DMS, Airflow, dbt, Datadog, Fivetran, and AWS CDK.
  • Experience designing data governance, metadata, lineage, or self-service data platforms.
  • Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or agentic workflow initiatives.
  • Experience leading platform modernization efforts in high-growth environments.
  • Experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or Engineering Manager.

Benefits

  • Hiring salary range of $194,000 to $220,000 USD.
  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities.
  • 401(k) with up to a 4% employer match.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including zero-cost plans for employees.
  • Fully employer-paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance, with optional additional Life Insurance.
  • Generous time off program.
  • Mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.

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