Piper Companies ยท 6 hours ago
Data Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$80/hr - $95/hr
5+ years expPiper Companies is seeking a Data / Platform Engineer to join a growing technology organization on a long-term contract with strong potential for conversion. This fully remote, US-based role focuses on building and operating the core data platform that powers large-scale integrations, analytics, and event-driven services.
Management Consulting
Responsibilities
Own and evolve multi-stage data pipelines that ingest data from external sources including APIs, direct queries, and file-based feeds into a centralized lake and warehouse
Build and maintain event-driven services and ETL workflows that enrich, deduplicate, and validate data at scale
Design and enforce data contracts, schemas, and cutover strategies to support safe backfills, corrections, and parity with legacy systems
Implement observability across pipelines and jobs, including monitoring, alerting, lineage, and operational runbooks
Operate and secure cloud-based data infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices
Optimize data models and SQL performance for large-scale analytical workloads
Partner with engineering and product teams to support downstream integrations, APIs, and user-facing data access
Document architecture, standards, and workflows to support a growing and collaborative platform team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering roles with ownership of production data platforms
Strong hands-on experience building event-driven or batch data pipelines using Python, Node, or similar languages
Deep experience operating AWS-based systems and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform
Advanced SQL skills with experience tuning performance in MPP data stores such as Redshift, Snowflake, or equivalent
Proven experience delivering reliable, idempotent data pipelines and validating outputs against legacy systems
Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments (e.g., healthcare, financial services)
Strong understanding of security, compliance, and audit-readiness best practices (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Comfortable owning systems end-to-end and troubleshooting complex production issues
Preferred
Workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar
Streaming and messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS)
Data modeling and transformation tools (e.g., dbt)
Data quality, metadata, and lineage tooling
Exposure to real-time enrichment or rules-based processing systems
Benefits
Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Sick Leave if required by law
Company
Piper Companies
At Piper, we obsess about the success of our customers and consultants.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Justin Jordan
Founder and Chairman
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