Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Federal

$181,200 – $317,100 · Posted 2 days ago

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Summary

As a Senior Staff Platform Engineer (IC5), you will architect and deliver large-scale distributed systems and data platform components, with emphasis on scalability, operational excellence, and engineering best practices. You'll lead complex technical initiatives, provide technical leadership for high-risk projects, and research/adopt new technologies to enhance platform capabilities. The role requires 12+ years of hands-on experience in distributed systems, data platforms, or large-scale backend infrastructure, with deep expertise in Java, JVM performance tuning, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka/Flink/Spark, and data formats like Parquet and Avro. You'll also be expected to leverage AI-powered tools and reason about how AI changes software and infrastructure engineering.

DevOps / Infrastructure Java Kubernetes AI Apache Flink Apache Iceberg Apache Kafka Apache Spark Avro Batch Processing Concurrency Data Governance Data Ingestion Data Lakes DevOps Distributed Systems Encryption Fault Tolerance Garbage Collection Gitops Helm High Availability Jvm Machine Learning Memory Models Metadata Management MySQL Networking Oracle Orc Parquet Performance Tuning PostgreSQL Profiling Release Engineering Schema Evolution Security Systems Stream Processing