Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
The Data Development, Insights & Strategy team is a highly focused effort to lead digital-first execution and transformation at Red Hat leveraging data strategically for our customers, partners, and associates.
We are looking for strong engineers, who can lead the technology and design of significant parts of RedHat’s Data Development Platform for creating next generation data products & applications. The successful candidate will have a track record of strong technical skills, drive to be innovative & creative, excellent communication and collaboration skills, thrive in a startup like environment, a keen attention to detail, and a passion for quality and open source software. If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and community innovation, then we are the TEAM for you!
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will elevate Red Hat’s data-driven culture and execution by building and delivering a best-in-class cloud-native data platform. You will work with a distributed team to deliver a delightful Developer and Analyst experience; satisfy and exceed requirements for compliance and governance; obtain high system performance and process responsiveness through automated, resilient, efficient processes; prepare to deliver on the needs of future ML-enhanced business processes; support broad internal adoption with rich enablement and low friction.
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code principles in all aspects of the data platform implementation
- Modify and maintain processes for user and data access controls
- Integrate data platform components together with other Red Hat systems and infrastructure
- Develop migration processes to move historic data and data pipelines from legacy systems to the new data platform
- Automate controls and reports that satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements
- Develop enablement content that will assist peers and users of the data platform
- Service data platform users with cost and usage insight, along with cost optimization recommendations
- Ensure a best-class experience for data engineers, data analysts, and data scientists using the data platform, with high productivity and low friction
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 4+ years of software development experience with a focus on data applications & systems
- Exceptional software engineering skills that lead to elegant and maintainable data platform
- Proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language, eg. Python, Go, Java, Rust, etc.
- Strong opinions and perspectives that you kindly debate, defend, or change to ensure that the entire team moves as one
- Sets and resets the bar on all things quality, from code through to data, and everything in between
- Deep empathy for your users of your data platform, leading to a constant focus on removing friction, increasing adoption, and delivering business results
- Prunes and prioritizes work in order to maximize your contributions and impact
- Bias for action and leading by example
- Past experience in building enterprise data platforms that have a high level of governance and compliance requirements
Optional Skills
- Familiarity with open source or inner source development and processes
- Familiarity of data mesh architectural principles
- Experience with Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow / Astronomer
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