Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 1Password is a rapidly growing company that has surpassed $400M in ARR and is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build a next-generation data platform that enables near real-time access to data for analysts, engineers, and business users across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain a streaming-first data platform built on Apache Kafka, Protobuf, and Apache Iceberg, enabling near real-time data availability across the organization
- Build and operate a hybrid Databricks and Snowflake architecture: leveraging Databricks for data engineering, streaming processing, and AI/ML workloads, and Snowflake as the governed serving layer for analytics and business reporting
- Own the unified storage layer to ensure all consumers operate on a consistent and governed data foundation
- Champion platform standards, tooling, and best practices across the data organization
Skills
- You have a passion for designing, implementing, and operating stable, scalable, and efficient data systems
- Deep experience with streaming architectures and event-driven data pipelines
- Strong focus on schema governance, data quality, and data lifecycle management
- Proven track record of architecting, building, deploying, and supporting scalable production systems across 7+ years of experience
- Enjoys leading through individual technical contribution while mentoring and supporting the growth of other data platform engineers
- Strong commitment to software engineering and data infrastructure best practices
- Curiosity and interest in emerging AI technologies and applications
- Prefer BS, MS, or Ph. D. in Computer Science with 7+ years of proven relevant industry experience
- 5+ years experience working on Cloud Platforms (AWS primarily or GCP) and open-source technologies supporting data infrastructure, platforms & tools
- 5+ years experience with Big Data query engines & data stores such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc
- Great communication skills capable of working cross functionally with different teams in Engineering and prioritizing critical needs for Data Platform
- Experience programming, building and deploying products that rely on large-scale distributed systems in Python, Go, Scala/Java, or other similar languages
- 5+ years experience with large-scale, distributed systems design and development with an understanding of scaling, replication, consistency, and high availability
- 5+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible
- Experience with compute layer like EC2, ECS, EKS or similar
- Implementing secure systems/datastores with least privilege access (e.g. IAM) and encryption
- Experience using streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, etc
- Implementing quality monitoring/alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
- Experience with Dagster or other orchestration tooling
- Experience with data modelling tooling such as dbt
Benefits
- Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in our incentive programs
- Immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in our incentive programs
- Immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, pension, and many others)
- Utilization of our generous paid time off
- An equity grant
- Participation in our incentive programs
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
- Competitive health benefits
- Generous PTO policy
- RSU program for most employees
- Retirement matching program
- Free 1Password account
- Paid volunteer days
- Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
- Remote-first work environment
Company Overview
1Password operates as a password manager for documents, credit card information, and addresses. It was founded in 2005, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://1password.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
1Password has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.