Staff Data Platform Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Tilt seeks a Staff Data Platform Engineer to own the architecture and self‑service patterns of its Databricks‑based data warehouse. The senior individual contributor will design scalable ingestion, governance and observability frameworks that empower analytics and data‑science teams across the company.

Role Snapshot

• Technical lead for data platform
• Design & scale Databricks warehouse architecture
• Build self‑service batch and streaming pipelines
• Define SLOs, lineage and observability
• Implement governance, multi‑tenancy and security
• Automate infrastructure with CI/CD and IaC
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards
• Produce first‑class documentation

Must-Have Requirements

• Python (or other OOP language)
• Databricks
• Terraform / IaC
• Cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Data governance & security
• CI/CD automation
• Streaming & batch data processing
• SLOs & observability
• Technical leadership & architecture direction
• data engineering
• senior individual contributor
• technical leadership

Nice-to-Have Signals

• AI‑assisted development tools (Claude, Augment)
• AI‑assisted development tools

Work Setup

• Location: United States
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: United States
• Travel: Company off‑sites twice a year
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Equity details
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Architect the end‑to‑end Databricks data warehouse, covering ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance and monitoring.
• Create reusable, secure self‑service frameworks for both batch and streaming data workloads.
• Establish and enforce service‑level objectives, data lineage, and observability, leading incident triage and root‑cause fixes.
• Design multi‑tenant guardrails with least‑privilege access, auditing, cost controls and privacy‑aware patterns.
• Automate and harden data‑infrastructure pipelines using CI/CD and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices.
• Elevate the team’s technical bar through design reviews, code reviews and mentorship.
• Deliver comprehensive documentation for every platform pattern to enable autonomous consumption.

Good Fit If You Have

• Experience leveraging AI‑powered coding assistants to boost productivity.
• Comfort working remotely across multiple time zones and attending global off‑sites twice a year.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and champion best‑practice standards.