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Staff Data Platform Engineer

1 month ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Data Engineer
Software Development
Apache Airflow AWS AWS CDK Dagster Datadog dbt GitHub Actions Grafana Kafka MongoDB New Relic PostgreSQL Prometheus Snowflake SQL System Design Terraform
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Murmuration

Murmuration

Murmuration is a company dedicated to transforming political campaigns and advocacy efforts to improve public education in the United States. They provide sophisticated data and analytics, proprietary technology, strategic guidance, and programmatic su...

Diversified Consumer Services
11-50
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Description

  • Create reusable infrastructure as code for provisioning and managing cloud database resources.
  • Secure databases by automating human and system access provisioning.
  • Implement monitoring across databases, applications, and end-to-end data flows.
  • Optimize database performance, runtimes, capacity, and total cost of ownership.
  • Design, implement, and test database backup and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Advise teams on data-store selection, schema design, access patterns, and data architectures.
  • Build opinionated, plug-and-play cloud infrastructure with embedded best practices.
  • Evaluate data tools and services and help shape Murmuration’s data platform strategy.
  • Establish standards for data schemas, sharing, access layers, privacy, and security.
  • Mentor senior engineers, lead technical discussions, and influence cross-team engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep data specialization and production delivery across transactional and analytic systems.
  • Expertise with relational, NoSQL, and columnar data stores, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Snowflake.
  • Advanced SQL and NoSQL skills, including schema design, migrations, indexing, normalization, and read/write optimization.
  • Experience with dbt, data replication or CDC tools such as Kafka connectors, DMS, or Airbyte.
  • Experience with Dagster or Airflow and streaming systems such as Flink.
  • Deep experience with cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, AWS, and production systems at scale.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, SAM, Serverless Framework, or Terraform.
  • Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, communicate tradeoffs, and influence without formal authority.
  • Experience with secure coding, data privacy, access control, test strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and responsible use of AI; civic or political technology experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Starting salary of $225,324 with comprehensive benefits.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and qualifying family members.
  • 5% employer retirement match and flexible unlimited PTO.
  • Generous paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Flexible remote work, company laptop, home-office stipend, and monthly remote-work expense reimbursement.
  • Annual professional development fund and Calm and BetterHelp mental health benefits.
  • Yearly in-person staff retreats and an inclusive, diversity-focused workplace.

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