Senior Data Platform Engineer

Job Description

• Gain a deep understanding of the analytics and data science processes at Alma and how the data teams operate. • Collaborate with teammates on Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science, to understand and prioritize solutions for practical problems facing Alma data consumers. • Work to maintain, simplify and reinvent the systems underlying the data infrastructure. Technologies you’ll be working with include AWS, S3, DMS, Glue, Ansible, Docker, SQL, and Redshift. • Continually research current and emerging technologies, proposing changes where most impactful. • Provide high-quality documentation and training to set peers up for success. • Ensure data applications and services meet Alma's standards, including performance, scalability, and security.

Qualifications

• You have 5-8 years of experience working with data infrastructure, data warehousing, systems architecture, and AWS related technologies. • You have experience maintaining, simplifying, and reinventing the systems underlying reporting, analytics, and data science functions, such as databases, business intelligence tools, machine learning systems, monitoring, and alerting. • You have worked with scaling challenges in previous roles and have implemented best practices around scaling. • You’re a systems thinker, concerned not only with individual component parts but with how those parts work together holistically. • You’re pragmatic, recognizing that, while there are multiple approaches to solving a problem, it is important to weigh practicality over theory when decision-making. • You are a strong communicator with engineers as well as non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• We’re a remote-first company • Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans • 401K plan (Roth and traditional) • Monthly therapy and wellness stipends • Monthly co-working space membership stipend • Monthly work-from-home stipend • Financial wellness benefits through Northstar • Pet discount program through United Pet Care • Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub • EAP access through Cigna • One-time home office stipend to set up your home office • Comprehensive parental leave plans • 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day • Flexible PTO