Drive the design and evolution of FloQast's data platform. Lead architecture, governance, and technical guidance while collaborating across teams and integrating emerging technologies.
As a Senior Staff Engineer, Data, you’ll be a key technical leader driving the design, implementation, and evolution of FloQast’s core data platform. You will define the standards and patterns that power data ingestion, governance, storage, processing, and access across all product and analytics systems. Your work will enable teams across engineering, product, and business operations to build on a reliable, scalable, and secure data foundation.
This is a hybrid role with three days per week Onsite in our Bay Area or Los Angeles locations
Visa sponsorship is NOT available at this time
What You'll Do
- Data Platform Architecture: Lead the design of scalable and reliable data pipelines, storage solutions, and access layers using modern cloud-native technologies.
- Foundational Systems: Own and evolve the core data platform components (e.g., event streaming, lakehouse architecture, batch & streaming ETL, data cataloging).
- Data Governance: Define best practices for data quality, lineage, privacy, and access control to ensure regulatory compliance and trust in the data.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Analytics, Infrastructure, and Security teams to align data platform capabilities with organizational goals.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers across the organization, establish coding and architectural standards, and influence the strategic direction of the platform.
- Innovation & Modernization: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies that improve performance, observability, developer experience, and cost efficiency.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in data infrastructure, distributed systems, or backend platform engineering.
- Proven track record of designing and delivering production-grade data platforms at scale (e.g., supporting hundreds of TBs of data, thousands of jobs/day).
- Strong experience with tools like Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, and cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience building APIs and services for data access, metadata management, and platform observability.
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA) and enterprise-grade security practices.
- Effective communicator and collaborator who can influence engineering and non-engineering audiences alike.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment.
- Exposure to AI/ML data pipelines or real-time analytics platforms.
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This job posting is for our Senior Staff Engineer, Data Platform the base pay range for this position is $188,000 - $282,000. Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
Azure
Dbt
GCP
Kafka
Snowflake
Spark
FloQast Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Our Los Angeles, CA headquarters are in a friendly area with restaurants within walking distance and gorgeous neighborhoods to walk through if you need a break. We also have offices in Columbus, OH and London, UK.
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