# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Acryldata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/acryldata)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $225k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, API Design, Distributed Systems, Data Processing Frameworks, Event-Driven Architecture, Schema Mapping, Airflow, Airbyte, dbt, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-03-20

> Leads development of DataHub's ingestion framework, building scalable metadata systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures for enterprise AI and data platforms. Requires 4+ years in distributed systems and advanced Python expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion systems for enterprise-scale metadata
- Develop clean, intuitive APIs for our connector ecosystem
- Create event-driven architectures for real-time metadata processing
- Implement schema mapping between diverse systems and DataHub's unified model
- Develop versioning systems for AI assets (training data, model weights, embeddings)

## Requirements
- 4+ years building production-grade distributed systems
- Advanced Python expertise with a focus on API design
- Experience with high-scale data processing or integration frameworks
- Strong systems knowledge and distributed architecture experience
- A track record of solving complex technical challenges

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with DataHub or similar metadata/ETL frameworks (Airflow, Airbyte, dbt)
- Open-source contributions
- Early-stage startup experience

## Compensation
Salary Range: $225,000 to $300,000

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