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Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Senior Data Platform Engineer in USA

  • Tessera Labs
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build core data platform services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization.
  • Develop reusable connector frameworks and abstractions for integrating varied 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.
  • Define interfaces, make architectural tradeoffs, and take data platform capabilities from design through production operation.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams on shared data platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least 4+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills with 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 data in place versus materializing it elsewhere.
  • Experience with concurrent or distributed workloads, including failure handling, resource management, and performance debugging.
  • Ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and turn complex requirements into clear, 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.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, storage, IAM, and infrastructure as code.

Benefits

  • Open to remote candidates, 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 deeply 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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