Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

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.

• 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).

• 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, Git Hub, 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, Big Query, Snowflake) and orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
• Understanding of data lakehouse patterns (Iceberg, Delta Lake), vector stores, and graph databases.
• Strong applied experience with the Linux operating system and command set
• Capable of organizing and managing multiple diverse projects in an agile environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, computer science or related discipline preferred.
• Enjoys complex problem solving and solutioning with a team

• Experience working directly with application developers and teams 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…