# Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

**Company:** [SentiLink](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentilink)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Postgres, Opensearch, Redshift, Emr, Spark, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, ETL, ELT, Kafka, Hadoop
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team owns data infrastructure, builds scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, optimizes storage, and collaborates with product and data science teams. Requires 5+ years experience in data engineering with Python/Golang, Spark, AWS, and Kubernetes.

## 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 to enable scalable and fast data access to data stores
- Collaborate with product teams supporting their data platform needs for smooth delivery of existing and new products
- Participate in call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to evolving engineering best practices
- Drive innovation by participating in hackathons and doing proof of concepts
- Develop functional subject matter expertise within various areas of 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 leveraging 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 writing efficient queries and optimization techniques
- 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 and a sense of humor
- Self organized and 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/year - $240,000/year + equity + benefits
- Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- Regular company-wide in-person events
- Home office stipend, and more!

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