[Hiring] Software Engineer, Data Platform @Movable Ink

Role Description

As an Engineer on the Data Platform team at Movable Ink, you will help design and build the systems that power how data flows through the organization. You will play a key role in developing and operating the unified data platform responsible for ingesting, processing, and exposing large volumes of data that drive Movable Ink’s products. Your work will directly impact the growth and maturity of Movable Ink’s products and services.

The role will be reporting to Engineering Manager, Data Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Support the design and delivery of data ingestion pipeline and infrastructure
• Assist in the successful migration of legacy data lifecycle management to new platform without disrupting existing data consumers
• Establish and maintain SLIs and SLOs for new ingestion and data platform with dashboards and alerting to track performance
• Build flexible data storage layer supporting a variety of use cases, e.g., transactional, analytic, and machine learning workloads
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, observability, and incident response practices for all event data pipelines and services
• Collaborate with product engineering, analytics, and machine learning teams to define contracts, functional requirements, and standards
• Design and implement a semantic metadata layer that classifies and labels data assets across both products
• Architect and deliver a multi-tenant data model that supports secure data sharing and isolation across clients

Qualifications

• A proven ability to learn new technologies, frameworks, and problem domains
• A focus on solving big picture problems with a focus on product and the end user
• Deep understanding of data governance principles and data lifecycle management
• Strong familiarity with database backend technologies (OLAP vs. OLTP)
• Strong familiarity with SQL with the ability to write and optimize queries
• Skill at building complex systems and identifying core primitives
• Experience designing and operating data systems on a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP)
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven ability to integrate systems, connecting legacy platforms with modern architectures
• Effective communicator who can facilitate system design discussions
• (Nice to have) Familiarity with Elixir for building concurrent, fault-tolerant data services
• (Nice to have) Experience with data pipeline and streaming technologies such as Airflow, Kafka, Apache Flink, or similar
• (Nice to have) Hands-on experience with columnar/OLAP databases such as Databricks or ClickHouse
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating data systems on AWS; GCP experience is a plus
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable leading design discussions

Benefits

• The base pay range for this position is $130,000-$165,000/year CAD
• Additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company Description

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.