Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Remote, United Kingdom

£90,000 to £105,000 base salary

This is an opportunity to join a small, fast-growing team building large-scale data and AI platforms used to drive advanced analytics and high-volume data processing. You will work at the heart of their next-generation data architecture, designing distributed systems that support cutting-edge machine learning workloads at scale.

The Company

They are a specialist AdTech organisation using advanced data processing and AI to understand consumer behaviour at massive scale. Their platform ingests billions of daily events and supports a suite of data-driven products used by clients for insight, analytics and digital activation. With around ten people in the business and a growing engineering function, they offer a collaborative, authentically driven environment with no bureaucracy and significant ownership from day one.

The Role

In this Senior Data Platform Engineer position, you will:

* Build and scale distributed data pipelines capable of handling large, high-throughput workloads.

* Develop core backend services in either Python or Go and learn the other as needed.

* Work across big data processing, data warehousing and high-volume SQL-based modelling.

* Contribute to the architecture underpinning ML and GPU-backed inference workloads.

* Develop resilient, cost-efficient systems that scale as data volumes grow.

* Improve the existing platform and help build new tools, pipelines and client-facing features.

* Own platform reliability, performance and data integrity across the ecosystem.

Your Skills and Experience

You will need:

* Strong commercial experience in Python or Go, with the ability to work across both.

* Proven capability in distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and high-volume data environments.

* Deep experience with SQL and modern cloud data warehousing.

* Experience with big data tooling and best practices.

* The ability to design systems for scale, reliability and cost-efficiency.

Nice to have skills include AWS, Kubernetes, GCP BigQuery, GPU or Ray experience, and exposure to AdTech or privacy-first data environments.

How to Apply

If this sounds like the right next step for you, apply today to be considered for this Senior Data Platform Engineer role.