# Senior Data Platform Engineer

**Company:** [SentiLink](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentilink)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Postgres, opensearch, Redshift, emr, Spark, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS, ETL, ELT, Kafka, Hadoop, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Senior Data Platform Engineer owning data infrastructure for identity and fraud detection products. Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data observability, and storage layers using Python/Golang, Spark, AWS, and databases. 5+ years experience required; mentor juniors and collaborate with product/DS teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build, expand, and optimize data infrastructure to create the most accurate dataset of identities and their relationships.
- Develop and operate secure, scalable, and reliable data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines that meet product requirements.
- Design and maintain a data observability framework to ensure data meets strict quality and freshness standards.
- Optimize data storage layer and build/maintain interfaces for scalable and fast data access.
- Collaborate with product teams to support data platform needs for delivery of existing and new products.
- Participate in call rotation for production issues.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Drive innovation by participating in hackathons and proof of concepts.
- Develop functional subject matter expertise in identity fraud domain.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or related field.
- Proficient in Python or Golang and related technologies and frameworks.
- Expertise in building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale using distributed data processing technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka or similar.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP.
- Deep understanding of different database technologies including RDBMS (e.g. Postgres), NoSQL (OpenSearch, vector DB), Columnar data stores etc., and experience with efficient queries and optimization.
- Experience building enterprise grade, scalable, containerized data services and frameworks on Kubernetes or similar platforms.
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps practices.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills.
- Self-organized with ability to work independently and with ambiguity.
- Experience working in a Scrum / Agile development environment.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working with Spark/EMR.
- Built streaming applications.
- Experience with AWS technologies such as EKS, SQS/SNS, EMR, Redshift, S3 etc.
- Prior experience working in a fintech startup.

## Compensation
$170,000 - $230,000 per year + equity + benefits.

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