# Senior Platform Engineer, Data

**Company:** [Thyme Care](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/thyme-care)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $195k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, AWS, Dagster, Airflow, Terraform, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake, CI/CD, Data Pipelines, Monitoring, Alerting, Infrastructure As Code, Unit Testing, Code Reviews
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> The Senior Platform Engineer will build and operate reliable data platform tooling, consolidate orchestration, scale dbt infrastructure, and improve Databricks developer experience. The role requires 5+ years of production software experience, strong Python and AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code experience, and familiarity with modern data stacks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the team’s orchestration consolidation to **Dagster** end-to-end, from technical design through implementation and rollout.
- Contribute to custom **dbt-core** infrastructure supporting more than 50 dbt projects and 15,000 models.
- Design and implement **Python** abstractions for data tooling, providing consistent structure and conventions for new projects and pipelines.
- Develop proactive monitoring and alerting for tooling and data pipelines.
- Own technical solutions while mentoring junior engineers and fostering learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Improve **Databricks** developer experience by developing tooling, defaults, and guardrails for team-managed workloads.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building, shipping, and supporting software in production.
- Experienced Python engineer who has built and operated systems on **AWS**, including internal tools and complex job orchestration with Dagster or **Airflow**.
- Experience owning features from idea through production, including design, implementation, testing, and ongoing improvements.
- Experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure with infrastructure as code, such as **Terraform**.
- Experience building or contributing to CI processes.
- Experience using and contributing to AI tooling that supports developer productivity, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- Experience as a data or platform engineer in a modern data stack environment, ideally at a fast-moving, early-stage, or growth-stage company.
- Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit tests, code reviews, and design documentation.
- Experience building internal tools and systems.
- Comfort with ambiguity, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

## Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Databricks or **Snowflake**.
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining **dbt** at scale.
- Prior healthcare or health technology experience.

## Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: **$175,500–$195,000**.
- Total compensation also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities.
- Individual pay decisions consider qualifications, experience, skill set, and internal equity.

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