Senior Data Platform Engineer

Vectra•Austin, TX

About The Position

Vectra is seeking a talented and hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to help drive the technical vision and delivery of features in our Application Data Platform. This platform is designed to offer both internal developers and customers a world-class developer experience, empowering engineering teams and customers alike to build the features that matter most. The platform must support both analytical and operational use cases and presents interesting challenges across a variety of areas, including data modeling, performance, and scalability. You will work closely with Application Data Platform leadership to build and deliver our technical roadmap. On any given day, you could be writing a design document, delivering challenging parts of the platform, fixing bugs, optimizing code, or mentoring other engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or similar or equivalent work experience
2+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer owning data production platforms
Strong applied software development experience; you've built, shipped, monitored, broken, and fixed software applications
Experience with real time or near real time data processing, databases and data management
Experience with an object oriented programming language (Python preferred)
Strong fundamentals with data structures and algorithms
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
Experience with a source control system (git preferred)
Experience with containerization or virtualization systems (Docker preferred)
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS preferred)
Debugging experience

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of networking, operating systems, security fundamentals
Experience with a commonly-used observability tool such as Grafana or Prometheus
Experience with Rust
Experience as technical lead for a production-grade data pipeline
Experience as a mentor to junior engineers

Responsibilities

Be comfortable designing production-grade pipelines and systems
Be comfortable writing and deploying production-grade code on a daily basis
Contribute to automated tests and other parts of end-to-end software delivery
Work collaboratively with other teams and within the team with other engineers and product managers
Mentor and lead by example more junior engineers, breaking up tasks for them while leading end-to-end projects
Evaluate and identify the correct approaches or technologies to use to solve problems
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, handling production deployments and monitoring production systems