Staff Software Engineer – Data Platform Engineer

Tekion is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to help architect and deliver internal frameworks that power data ingestion, transformation, observability, and self-serve analytics across the company. The successful candidate will design and implement foundational frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, schema validation, and metadata management, and partner with SRE and Infra teams to build autoscaling, self-healing, and cost-optimized Spark jobs on AWS EMR.

Requirements

• 7+–12 years of experience in data platform, infrastructure, or backend systems engineering roles.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals — distributed systems, fault tolerance, performance tuning.
• Expertise in Apache Spark with production experience on AWS EMR.
• Experience building or managing CDC pipelines using tools like Debezium, Kafka Connect, or custom connectors.
• Familiarity with streaming systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink.
• Experience serving data using Trino or Presto in a multi-tenant environment.
• Proficiency in Python, Java or Scala, and Unix/Linux systems.
• Strong understanding of open table formats like Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.