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Data Platform Engineer

BrightAI Corporation · Palo Alto · United States

Occupation
DevOps / Platform Engineer

Posted: 10/7/2025 · Last checked: 10/28/2026

Job description

Quoted in full from BrightAI Corporation's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

We are a high-growth company transforming how businesses operate by integrating AI, IoT, and cloud-native services into scalable, real-time platforms. As a Platform Data Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our products, services, and insights. 

You’ll join a multidisciplinary team focused on ingesting, processing, and managing massive streams of sensor and operational data across a wide array of devices—from drones and robots to industrial systems and smart environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-throughput data ingestion pipelines for structured and semi-structured data.
  • Implement robust and secure data lake and SQL-based storage architectures optimized for performance and cost.
  • Develop and maintain internal tools and frameworks for data ingestion using Python, Golang, and SQL.
  • Build and maintain inference pipelines to support model serving and near real time prediction workflows
  • Develop and maintain internal tools and deployment processes to support ML development workflow , including experimentation, testing, deployment and monitoring.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Cloud, Edge, Product, and AI teams to define data contracts, schemas, and retention policies.
  • Use AWS cloud infrastructure (including Argo Workflows, S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, Athena, and RDS) to support end-to-end data workflows.
  • Employ Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices using Terraform to manage data platform infrastructure.
  • Monitor data pipelines for quality, latency, and failures using tools such as CloudWatch, SumoLogic, or DataDog.
  • Build and maintain ingestion pipelines that land curated sensor and operational data into Delta tables on Databricks to support ML experimentation and model training.
  • Continuously optimize storage, partitioning, and query performance across large-scale datasets.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and ensure the platform adheres to security, compliance, and best practice standards.

Skills and Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering or data engineering.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and Golang.
  • Deep understanding of SQL and modern data lake architectures (e.g., using Parquet, Iceberg, or Delta Lake).
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services including but not limited to: S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, Athena, and RDS.
  • Proficiency with Terraform for automating infrastructure deployment and management.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks for ML workflows: MLflow experiment tracking and model registry, Model Serving, and building training datasets in Delta Lake (PySpark/Spark SQL).
  • Experience working with real-time or batch data ingestion at scale, and designing fault-tolerant ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Familiarity with DVC for dataset versioning and management.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems like Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Strong debugging and optimization skills across cloud, network, and application layers.
  • Excellent collaboration, communication, and documentation skills.

Bonus Points

  • Experience working with time-series or IoT sensor data at industrial scale.
  • Exposure to gRPC and protobuf-based data contracts.
  • Experience supporting ML pipelines and feature stores.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts.
  • Databricks Machine Learning certification (Professional)
  • Prior startup experience and/or comfort working in fast-paced, iterative environments.

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