Samsara · 3 months ago
Senior Data Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $169K/yr
10+ years expSamsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for operational improvements. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to deliver a reliable data platform and analytics, collaborating with various teams to optimize workflows and data pipelines.
Business IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesInternet of ThingsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Administer and monitor Databricks workspaces and underlying AWS Infra: develop platform admin tools and capabilities to effectively administer, monitor, track and troubleshoot various platform resources: (clusters, catalogs, users, groups, databases, storage and security)
Act as the primary Databricks SME, assisting and guiding teams on platform features and best practices
Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and data scientists to operationalize and optimize workflows and data pipelines
Oversee data-engineering dev ecosystem, including dev-tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring frameworks
Own implementation and management of IaaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation for Databricks and AWS resources
Ensure security, high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance across data services
Incorporate DevOps best practices including automated testing, deployment, observability, and monitoring
Engage directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand their data needs and design scalable solutions
Collaborate with engineers, managers, and vendor representatives in evaluating new features and solutions. Lead rapid prototyping and proof-of-concepts to evaluate for performance, cost, security, scalability, observability
Provide mentorship to junior team members, and provide technical guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing across teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
10+ years experience in a Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps/DataOps or similar technical role, including at least 2+ years experience in data infrastructure or platform focused role
Experience building, delivery and administering large-scale production-grade data platforms and services to data engineering, business analyst and data-science teams
Solid knowledge of Databricks features and administration, including Unity Catalog, cluster management, security, conducting troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, and performance optimization
Experience and familiarity with AWS services and Cloud Infrastructure provisioning, management, monitoring, and security (e.g., S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, API-Gateway, VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS)
Strong knowledge of SQL and Python, and hands-on data-engineering experience in designing and developing data pipelines and ETL routines from a variety of sources (SaaS corporate systems, APIs, RDBMS)
Skilled with change-data capture, incremental and batch loading techniques. Experienced in troubleshooting underlying issues and translating them into technical solutions
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
Experience delivering and managing Databricks and AWS Infra for 100s of users
Experience as a technical lead
Knowledge of DevOps tools and practices: GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD systems, Terraform, monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch)
Experience implementing robust data governance and security measures to ensure data integrity and compliance
Benefits
Competitive total compensation package
Employee-led remote and flexible working
Health benefits
Company
Samsara
Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$930MKey Investors
General CatalystAndreessen Horowitz
2021-12-15IPO
2020-09-24Secondary Market
2020-05-20Series F· $700M
Leadership Team
Sanjit Biswas
CEO
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CTO - Hardware & Operations
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