Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Be the key in unlocking business opportunities in the convergent world of Open Platform IP Video Management Systems! Join Milestone, a global market leader! Milestone seeks a Lead Data Platform Engineer to join our fast-moving, innovative VSaaS engineering team working on the Arcules product. In this role, you will architect, design, and build highly scalable distributed data systems to enable new and innovative solutions in cloud-based video surveillance and IoT control systems.

To be successful, you must have proven experience in driving critical engineering and architectural decisions for the development team. You will provide sound technical directions and dive into solving complex system design and implementation challenges. You will learn and share knowledge with the best and help us architect and build modern cloud-native applications. You will drive decisions on technology and processes to maximize our products' performance, scalability, and reliability.

This is a fully remote role that can be located anywhere in the US. Final Interviews will be in person.

As a Milestone Employee, you are the key to our success. Come join our dynamic international team and be a part of our rapidly growing, successful business.

• Work with product managers and technology teams to understand roadmap priorities and shape product features that address customers' needs.
• Employ advanced knowledge of data structures, data modeling and design, and common software design patterns focusing on microservice architecture.
• Articulate design and architecture trade-offs and apply software design patterns to solve complex engineering problems efficiently.
• Drive design and implementation based on sound engineering principles and best practices, focusing on testability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Provide overall project design and estimates for business and technology strategy needs during project scoping phases.
• Manage the velocity of delivery without compromising the quality of product releases.
• Mentor other engineers to make sound technical decisions and help build effective software engineering practices, especially in adopting formal testing as part of the software development process.
• Embrace the “you build it, you run it” engineering principle.
• Champion good software engineering habits, such as: clean code principles, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and “going end-to-end early”.
• Own, diagnose, and resolve complex system technical issues and code defects.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to help establish the technical roadmap to facilitate innovation and enhancement of product capabilities.
• Provide leadership with a point of view on "what’s next" in technology, coding tools, applications, and concepts.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and lifelong learning.
• Identify and work with SRE to implement automation opportunities to enhance efficiency in the software delivery cycle and the reliability of Milestone’s VSaaS product.

• Minimum of 8 years of software development experience with a distinguished track record of delivering complex enterprise services (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with programming in Go, C++, or an equivalent compiled language.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with real-time data processing (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, and similar).
• Experience with multiple database technologies, especially distributed columnar databases and Time Series.
• Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodologies and Git-based workflows.
• Clear and persuasive written and oral communication skills to lead or persuade fellow engineers and non-technical audience.
• A breadth of technology and engineering skills, knowledge, and experience - comfortable with topics spanning programming languages, AI/ML, advanced networking, compute and data platforms, as well as automation and big data.

• Experience working on data lakes preferred.
• Experience with Singlestore preferred.
• Familiarity with testing…