As a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer, you'll manage large-scale data platforms, ensuring their performance and scalability while collaborating with development teams and supporting data initiatives.
You're a seasoned database expert and developer and are interested in taking your career to the next level while working alongside our data and engineering teams. You’ll be working in a team supporting a large database footprint. You’ll be responsible for production and development operations and play a key role in driving forward our data initiatives and strategies.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about autonomy, real-world operational systems, and building robust, scalable data solutions in fast-paced environments. In this role, you will help lead the building and management of high-volume, real-time data services and infrastructure. Collaborating closely with data engineering and product teams, you'll be responsible for designing and maintaining reliable, efficient systems that support mission-critical operations. This is a hands-on infrastructure role with meaningful ownership and the chance to shape the data backbone of our industry leading platforms.
As a growing financial technology company offering real estate valuation products, software platforms and rich data and analytics, you will be an instrumental part of a small yet strong database operations team supporting data and application development working with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
What You Will Work On
- As Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer, you will be managing large-scale data platforms, ensuring their performance, scalability, and alignment with business goals.
- Supporting a large number of Redshift and PostgreSQL databases running in our hybrid cloud. Everything from RDS, Aurora, Redshift, EnterpriseDB to community edition. The entire lifecycle: new build, upgrading, and retiring.
- Partner with our development teams to engineer our next generation flagship products. Manage HA architectures, disaster recovery, and backup/restore processes.
- Repeatable builds, automation, documentation, monitoring and observability. Participate in design and application review sessions.
- Develop Python and shell scripts, procedures and processes for data migration and application development.
- Participate in meetings and conference calls related to project and troubleshooting activities.
- Develop strong working knowledge of key applications and their interaction with the database(s).
Who We Are Looking For
- 7+ years experience working in an AWS cloud environment in a similar role.
- Strong experience in building and working with complex Redshift deployments. Hands on IaC (Infrastructure as Code) experience, specifically Terraform.
- Deep proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Working experience with version control systems, CI/CD practices, and partnering with development teams using modern toolsets, specifically Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, VSCode on a MacOS platform.
- Proven experience with observability and monitoring at scale.
- Firm understanding of Data Governance and contributing to those initiatives and technologies. Experience working with data engineers using cloud data warehouse technologies (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake) and orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
- Understanding of data lakehouse patterns (Iceberg, Delta Lake), vector stores, and graph databases.
- Capable of working and managing multiple diverse projects in an agile environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, computer science or related discipline preferred.
- Experience working directly with application developers in terms of database design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Ability to write, debug and tune SQL and PL/pgSQL, packages, procedures, functions, triggers, etc. Likes documentation and diagramming of all systems and databases.
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and own complex problems to resolution.
Nice to Have
What You Can Expect
- Compensation: The base salary for this position ranges from $147,000 to $183,000 annually, depending on your location, experience, and qualifications. Additional compensation offerings include company profit-sharing bonus program, communication stipends, and referral bonuses.
- Inclusive benefits package offering:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and company paid vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, voluntary life and AD&D insurance options, voluntary supplemental insurances for accident, critical illness, and legal services, paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays, employee assistance and wellness programs, company paid short term disability coverage, company contributions to health saving funds (with participation in the high deductible health plan. We offer company paid access to Galileo for virtual primary care and Rula for virtual mental health resources.
- Through our Anniversary Program, we celebrate the meaningful milestones and long tenure that reflect how much we value your contributions and commitment to our team.
- Career and skill development resources to help advance your career and personal growth.
- A mission-driven environment where your work makes a measurable impact on the real estate industry.
What We Value
- Wherever it Leads, Whatever it Takes® - No matter how remote, complex, or unexpected. Our commitment never wavers.
- Hire NICE people - Skills can be taught but character shines through. We seek those who bring integrity, kindness, and grit.
- Lift others up - We lead with empathy and strive to improve the lives of those around us.
- Sweat the details - Excellence lives in the little things. Getting it just so is how we make a big impact.
- Raise the bar - We don’t settle for industry standards, we redefine them.
About Us
Our story began in the mountain town of Truckee, California more than 20 years ago, when we pioneered simple, web-based valuation technology solutions for an industry that relied on paper. Today, we’ve grown one of the highest-coverage networks of real estate professionals across the country. As we continue our journey to modernize valuation, we’ll hold on to our promise from day one: to go wherever it leads and do whatever it takes to serve our customers with remarkable technology and uncompromising service.
Clear Capital is an equal-opportunity employer.
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Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
BigQuery
Bitbucket
Delta Lake
Git
Git
Iceberg
Postgres
Python
Redshift
Snowflake
SQL
Terraform
Vscode
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