Senior Data Platform Engineer

Monaco

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in data platforms, ML infrastructure, or backend systems
  • Proficient with PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Temporal, ElasticSearch, or similar technologies
  • Experience with Kafka, Spark, Databricks, or Snowflake
  • Strong skills in leading architectural decisions and executing effectively
  • Ability to manage and scale production systems rapidly

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable data ingest and transformation pipelines
  • Support machine learning workflows including training and evaluation
  • Address challenges in distributed systems such as reliability and latency
  • Enhance developer experience and tooling for data and ML systems
  • Ensure seamless integration of data systems into production environments

Benefits

  • Collaborative in-office work setting in San Francisco
  • High-ownership role with impactful contributions
  • Opportunities to influence and lead architectural decisions
  • Work at the cutting edge of AI and data engineering
Full Job Description
We9re looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help build Monaco9s data and ML platform - the pipelines, context systems, and infrastructure that power our AI-driven product. You9ll work on the foundation that makes models, agents, and workflows actually useful in production.

This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, and applied AI.

What you9ll do:
  • Build scalable pipelines and event-driven systems for ingesting, transforming, and serving data.
  • Support ML workflows: training data, evaluation, embeddings, feature pipelines.
  • Solve distributed systems challenges around reliability, latency, consistency, and scale.
  • Improve observability, tooling, and developer experience for data, ML, and agent systems.


What we9re looking for:
  • 5+ years building data platforms, ML infrastructure, or backend systems.
  • Deep experience in technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Temporal, ElasticSearch or Turbopuffer, Kafka, Spark, Databricks or Snowflake, etc.
  • Ability to lead major architecture decisions and execute on them fast, maintain and scale production systems through rapid workload growth.


Location:
  • San Francisco. We9re an in-person team - 5 days in the office. At this stage, proximity genuinely accelerates product quality and team cohesion.

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