Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Senior Data Platform Engineer in USA

Tessera Labs
Full time
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USA
09/12/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Build core data platform services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization.
Develop reusable connector frameworks and abstractions for different enterprise systems and access patterns.
Improve query and data-movement performance through partitioning, parallelism, and efficient memory and storage management.
Build orchestration, retries, checkpointing, and observability to support reliable workload recovery and data correctness.
Take platform capabilities from design to production, define interfaces, make architectural tradeoffs, and operate the resulting systems.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams on platform development and product direction.

Requirements

At least 4+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer.
Strong Python and SQL skills and experience building maintainable, tested production software.
Experience developing backend services, data infrastructure, or data platform components beyond configuring pipelines.
Understanding of relational databases, query optimization, data formats, and querying-in-place versus materialization tradeoffs.
Experience with concurrent or distributed workloads, failure handling, resource management, and performance debugging.
Ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and turn complex requirements into practical designs.
Preferred experience with analytical query engines, lakehouse technologies, workflow orchestration, enterprise-system integrations, or containerized infrastructure.
Preferred experience building connector libraries, developer-facing APIs, or shared platforms used by engineering teams.
Preferred familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, storage, IAM, and infrastructure as code.

Benefits

Remote work is available, with a preference for candidates based in the Bay Area.
Opportunity to build AI products for complex enterprise problems at the intersection of AI, ERP systems, and automation.
High ownership, high impact, and direct influence on product direction.
Collaboration with a technical and customer-focused team.

Salary: $200k - $300k/yr

Tessera Labs

Enterprise transformations shouldn't take years or cost fortunes. At Tessera, we've built a multi-agent AI platform that cuts ERP transformation timelines from years to weeks and reduces costs by more than half—while delivering first-time-right outcomes with enterprise-grade security and governan...

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