Senior Data Platform Engineer

About the role

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, and establishing data as a first-class product surface owned at the source.

What we're looking for

• You have a 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

Bonus points for

• 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

What you can expect

• Design, implement, and maintain a streaming-first data platform built on Apache Kafka, Protobuf, and Apache Iceberg, enabling near real-time data availability across the organization
• Build and operate a hybrid Databricks and Snowflake architecture: leveraging Databricks for data engineering, streaming processing, and AI/ML workloads, and Snowflake as the governed serving layer for analytics and business reporting
• Own the unified storage layer to ensure all consumers operate on a consistent and governed data foundation
• Champion platform standards, tooling, and best practices across the data organization

Pay

USA-based roles: The annual base salary for this role is between $152,000 USD and $197,500 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Canada-based roles: The annual base salary for this role is between $133,000 CAD and $173,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.

Benefits

• 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