Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Own the data platform's architecture and technical direction — treating data infrastructure as a software product built from reusable frameworks, and making deliberate build-vs-buy tradeoffs as the platform grows

Build and operate the ingestion layer across streaming, batch, CDC, and third-party connectors, including schema evolution that absorbs upstream change safely rather than silently breaking consumers, so onboarding a new source is a paved path instead of a project

Land data into Snowflake with the freshness, completeness, and cost characteristics downstream consumers can plan around, and define a clean handoff for Analytics Engineering

Own the orchestration platform — scheduling, retries, backfills, and dependency management across the full data graph

Build the transformation and compute frameworks teams can use to process data at scale, and the self-serve tooling that lets product engineers and analysts stand up their own pipelines against primitives you've already made safe

Design and operate stream processing infrastructure for use cases that can't wait for batch — real-time product features, operational alerting, and near-live reporting

Build the trust layer: quality and observability (freshness, validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection, alerting routed to the right owner) alongside lineage, cataloging, and discovery, so anyone can find data and know where it came from and what depends on it

Build the patterns and tooling for PII and sensitive data — classification, masking, retention, access control — and for multi-region residency requirements

Set the technical bar for data at Harvey through design reviews, standards, documentation, and mentorship as the team grows

Experience with dbt and a close working relationship with analytics engineering teams

Experience with lakehouse architectures and open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake) or query engines like Trino

Experience operating multi-tenant platforms with strict security, compliance, or data residency requirements

Exposure to data infrastructure for AI products

Prior experience as an early or founding data platform hire at a fast-growing company

$231,000 - $340,000 USD

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