| Location | San Francisco, CA (Remote) |
Sr Software Engineer - Data Platform
Location San Francisco, CA 94107 Date Posted October 12, 2026 Job ID 15750 Employment Type Direct Hire
Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a Senior Data Platform Engineer for an innovative, rapidly growing technology company developing AI-powered systems that transform complex real-world data into actionable insights. This is a full-time, remote position working PST hours. Must be located in the United States.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Senior Data Platform Engineer will serve as an early member of the data engineering team, designing a scalable data platform from the ground up. This individual will transform complex sensor and telemetry data into reliable, well-documented datasets used by machine-learning and perception teams. The position is ideal for an autonomous, collaborative engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous technical challenges and building high-impact systems in a growing environment.
PERKS:
Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package with a long-term equity incentive program
Fully remote, full-time position
Opportunity to architect and influence a greenfield data platform
Highly collaborative environment with significant autonomy and visibility
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Architect and deploy high-throughput cloud data pipelines that process large volumes of sensor, telemetry, and other complex data.
Build post-processing workflows that align, resample, calibrate, and restructure multi-source data for machine-learning applications.
Develop scalable backfill and reprocessing frameworks for updated filters, synchronization, labeling corrections, and metadata enrichment.
Establish dataset lineage, versioning, documentation, quality monitoring, and reproducibility standards.
Create dataset discovery and access APIs or SDKs that support searches by factors such as time, region, modality, labels, and quality indicators.
Optimize data storage and build supporting tools, potentially including labeling and pre-labeling workflows, for machine-learning teams.
QUALIFICATIONS:
At least 5 years of professional data engineering, software engineering, or data platform experience, with startup, early-stage, or greenfield platform-building experience strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to independently architect and deploy high-throughput data pipelines from the ground up.
Strong Python skills and experience with tools such as PyArrow, Polars, Pandas, NumPy, or SciPy.
Experience developing production services with Go, Rust, TypeScript, or a comparable programming language.
Strong cloud infrastructure experience, preferably with AWS, including deploying and operating production data pipelines.
Experience owning datasets as products, including lineage, versioning, reproducibility, documentation, backfills, reprocessing, storage optimization, and data-quality monitoring.
Experience with relevant technologies or data domains such as Airflow, Prefect, MLflow, W&B, labeling workflows, edge or multi-source data, time synchronization, or geospatial data.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
This full-time opportunity offers competitive base up to $240k/yr (DOE) plus equity (long-term equity incentive program), and 401k and flexible PTO / Holidays / Sick Time.
HOW TO APPLY: For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here!
ABOUT OUR SEARCH FIRM:
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