Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Platform Engineer

£90,000-£105,000

Remote (Quarterly meets in London)

This is a standout opportunity to work on high-scale data challenges, designing the next generation of a cutting-edge analytics and AI platform. You will join a small, authentic, highly collaborative engineering team where your ideas have real impact and where ownership is encouraged from day one.

THE COMPANY

This organisation operates in the digital analytics and advertising technology space, helping clients understand online behaviours and turn data into actionable insight. They build and maintain a modern data platform and the applications that sit on top of it, used by clients to explore trends and drive smarter advertising decisions.

THE ROLE

As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will help shape a distributed data and compute platform designed for large-scale ingestion, transformation and machine learning workloads.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

• Designing and optimising of distributed systems for high-throughput data processing
• Build services and tools in Python or Go, with the opportunity to cross-train in the other.
• Work across data pipelines, data warehouses and processing frameworks to support analytics and AI products, contributing to new applications and evolving existing client-facing tools.
• Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to enable new features and products.
• Take ownership of technical decisions in a startup environment with significant autonomy.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Senior Data Platform Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong commercial experience in Python or Go, and willingness to learn the other.
• Expertise in distributed systems or large-scale data processing.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and data warehouse technologies.
• Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, BigQuery or GPU-based processing is beneficial.
• Experience in digital analytics or AdTech is a bonus but not required.

BENEFITS

The successful Senior Data Platform Engineer will receive the following:

• Salary between £90,000 - £105,000 - depending on experience, plus competitive benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.