[Hiring] Senior Data Platform Engineer @1Password

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help us build the next generation of our data platform, a streaming-first, domain-oriented foundation designed for speed, ownership, and trust. You will work on the infrastructure, tooling, and paved paths that allow data to flow from production systems into a governed medallion architecture, enabling near real-time access for analysts, engineers, AI systems, and business users across the organization.

This is a high-impact role at the center of a platform transformation:

• Enabling self-serve data access
• Moving towards near real-time data access
• Establishing data as a first-class product surface owned at the source

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

Qualifications

• Passion for designing, implementing, and operating stable, scalable, and efficient data systems
• Deep experience with streaming architectures and event-driven data pipelines
• Strong focus on schema governance, data quality, and data lifecycle management
• Proven track record of architecting, building, deploying, and supporting scalable production systems across 7+ years of experience
• Enjoys leading through individual technical contribution while mentoring and supporting the growth of other data platform engineers
• Strong commitment to software engineering and data infrastructure best practices
• Curiosity and interest in emerging AI technologies and applications
• Prefer BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science with 7+ years of proven relevant industry experience
• 5+ years experience working on Cloud Platforms (AWS primarily or GCP) and open-source technologies supporting data infrastructure, platforms & tools
• 5+ years experience with Big Data query engines & data stores such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.
• Great communication skills capable of working cross-functionally with different teams in Engineering and prioritizing critical needs for Data Platform
• Experience programming, building and deploying products that rely on large-scale distributed systems in Python, Go, Scala/Java, or other similar languages
• 5+ years experience with large-scale, distributed systems design and development with an understanding of scaling, replication, consistency, and high availability
• 5+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with compute layer like EC2, ECS, EKS or similar

Requirements

• Implementing secure systems/datastores with least privilege access (e.g. IAM) and encryption
• Experience using streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, etc.
• Implementing quality monitoring/alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
• Experience with Dagster or other orchestration tooling
• Experience with data modelling tooling such as dbt

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing programs
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• Competitive health benefits
• Generous PTO policy
• RSU program for most employees
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
• Remote-first work environment