Senior Platform Engineer (1149944)

About the role

Senior Platform Engineer position located in Irvine, CA (role also noted for Tustin, CA). Responsible for building, administering, automating, securing, and operating enterprise Databricks and cloud data-platform environments, including Databricks workspace administration, Unity Catalog governance, identity and access management, compute and cluster policies, infrastructure automation, CI/CD enablement, monitoring, reliability, cost management, and production support.

Pay

$160,000.00 USD Annually - $170,000.00 USD Annually

Schedule

Fulltime

Responsibilities

• Administer Databricks accounts, workspaces, metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, storage credentials, connections, shares, recipients, and platform configurations.
• Provision and manage development, test, staging, and production workspaces using standardized, repeatable patterns.
• Configure workspace settings, repositories, jobs, notebooks, SQL warehouses, instance pools, job clusters, all-purpose compute, and serverless capabilities.
• Define and enforce cluster policies, approved runtime versions, libraries, init scripts, autoscaling, tagging, and compute-usage standards.
• Manage Databricks Runtime and platform upgrades, compatibility testing, release planning, maintenance windows, and rollback procedures.
• Support Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables or Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Databricks SQL, MLflow, model registry, feature engineering, and structured-streaming services.
• Troubleshoot workspace, permissions, connectivity, compute, storage, job execution, library, runtime, and performance issues.
• Maintain administration standards, platform documentation, knowledge articles, support procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Design and manage Unity Catalog metastores, catalogs, schemas, managed and external tables, volumes, external locations, storage credentials, and grants.
• Implement user and group provisioning through single sign-on, SCIM, identity-provider integration, and enterprise directory services.
• Administer account-level and workspace-level users, groups, service principals, permissions, entitlements, and access-control models.
• Implement role-based and attribute-based access controls, least-privilege permissions, separation of duties, and privileged-access procedures.
• Configure secure access patterns for secrets, tokens, credentials, service principals, private endpoints