Sr. Platform Engineer (Data Platform)

Position Overview

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain services governing user controls, identity, and security across the data platform.
• Build and harden secure content sharing capabilities, ensuring data is accessible to the right users under the right conditions.
• Work on Dgraph internals as needed, alongside building services and applications on top of Dgraph.
• Partner with platform, integrations, and infra teams to ensure identity and security primitives are consistent across the broader ecosystem.
• Drive decisions on data access patterns, permissions models, and secure sharing architecture.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code in Go and Python, with an eye toward reliability, security, and performance.
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to technical direction for the data platform.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time in backend/platform engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python.
• Experience building systems related to identity, access control, permissions, or security — you understand the tradeoffs involved in building secure, scalable systems.
• Comfortable working across the stack, with a preference and strength for backend/services work.
• Experience with graph databases (Dgraph or similar) is a strong plus; interest in working on database internals is a plus.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with platform and infra teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Must be a US citizen or permanent resident living within the United States.