Senior Platform Engineer – Analytics Platform (Databricks | Palantir)

CONAGRA • Omaha, NE

32d • $81,000 - $118,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Manager of Data Platforms & Engineering, you will design, automate, and operate scalable, reliable data platforms—primarily Databricks and Palantir Foundry—within Conagra’s Azure environment. You will enable consistent, high‑quality data engineering and data product delivery through CI/CD, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and robust Disaster Recovery, applying site reliability engineering principles to drive automation, observability, and resilience across the data platform ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5+ years in platform engineering, data platform operations, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience supporting Databricks and/or Palantir in a production environment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python or Bash.
• Familiarity with cloud fundamentals (Azure or Google Cloud Platform), networking concepts, and identity and access management.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and platform‑level automation.
• Experience with operational excellence practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root‑cause analysis.
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating with engineering teams and business partners.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years operating cloud environments, with preference for Azure.
• Experience with Terraform, policy‑as‑code, observability tooling, and Disaster Recovery engineering.
• Skill in influencing platform strategy and mentoring engineering teams on site reliability engineering and DevOps practices for data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and optimize Databricks and/or Palantir Foundry workspaces, clusters, jobs, storage integrations, and platform configurations.
• Manage workspace governance, cluster policies, secrets, access controls, and cost guardrails.
• Automate platform provisioning, onboarding, and environment consistency through Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting consistent deployment of notebooks, transformations, libraries, and data products while supporting test‑driven development standards.
• Standardize data product delivery using reusable pipeline templates and paved‑road deployment frameworks.
• Enforce guardrails and quality gates to ensure reliable, safe, and compliant data product releases.
• Strengthen platform resilience and Disaster Recovery readiness across environments.
• Participate in on‑call rotations for platform incidents.
• Execute runbooks, lead postmortems, and drive improvements for platform reliability.
• Perform scheduled chaos testing and Disaster Recovery preparedness checks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees