Senior Data Platform Engineer

Phaidra

15h • $123,760 - $200,200 • Remote

About The Position

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation with AI-powered control systems. They use reinforcement learning algorithms to convert raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions, focusing on industrial applications. Phaidra enables domain experts to configure AI control systems without writing code. The team has a strong track record in applying AI to complex problems, including DeepMind's AlphaGo and optimizing energy usage in Google's Data Centers. Phaidra operates as a 100% remote company with no physical office, hiring internationally through OysterHR. Their core values are Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
• Proven expertise building, operating, and monitoring large-scale multi-tenant systems while accounting for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting.
• Approach your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency, directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.
• Experience with latest batch & realtime data processing, storage & service technologies such as Apache Flink.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience designing environment-agnostic abstractions that let applications run across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments, with working knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with self-service data platforms, data lakes, or lakehouses at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable components for the data platform that enable high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
• Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of API services and scalable event-driven applications that power the product backend.
• Design clear, extensible software interfaces for internal consumers and maintain a high release-quality bar.
• Design and optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security, and ease of access.
• Own and operate your services in production, including releases, deployments, and on-call rotations, meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers, and TPMs across teams.
• Mentor your peers and be a technical role model on the team.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity.
• Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
• Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).
• Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year.
• Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).
• Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development.
• Company MacBook.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed