Distinguished Engineer – Data Platform

Role Overview

• Serves as a recognized technical authority across the organization, leading the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Drives architectural strategy, engineering standards, and key technology decisions impacting multiple platforms and teams.
• Maintains hands-on involvement in architecture, system design, and coding, including development of proof-of-concepts and resolution of complex production issues.
• Leads complex, multi-year enterprise initiatives from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and technical excellence.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Operations leaders to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
• Ensures solutions are built in accordance with engineering best practices, including quality standards, CI/CD, automated testing, scalability, observability, and secure development principles.
• Promotes incremental, production-ready delivery and avoids large-scale “big bang” implementations.
• Provides executive-level communication regarding progress, risks, architectural trade-offs, and long-term technology implications.
• Mentors and elevates senior engineers and technical leaders, raising the overall engineering bar across the organization.
• Ensures compliance with security policies, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and service level commitments.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of systems and data.

Requirements

• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Highly experienced, often with 20 or more years of progressive software engineering experience, including technical leadership of large-scale enterprise initiatives.
• Minimum 5 or more years of experience designing and operating highly scalable, distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing cloud-native solutions using containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and enterprise releases.
• Deep expertise in at least one major technical domain such as distributed systems, full-stack platforms, data-intensive architectures, or cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and work effectively in cross-functional teams to generate results.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills with strong executive presence and business acumen.
• Background and drug screen.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.