Staff Data Platform Engineer
Save this job and keep your search organized
Create a free account to save jobs, create alerts and return to this listing from your dashboard.
By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.
This is not a traditional data engineering seat; you will own the long-term buildout of the data platform powering the API and analytics layer, drive architectural direction, and partner with product, engineering, and leadership to deliver scalable abstractions and reusable components.
What You'll Do
Own projects enhancing data replication, storage, enrichment, and reporting capabilities
Build and optimize streaming and batch pipelines that support the core product and API
Design scalable storage solutions for petabytes of IoT and time-series data
Develop and maintain real-time ingestion systems to support growing data volumes
Implement distributed tracing, data lineage, and observability to improve monitoring and troubleshooting
What You Bring (Must Have)
8 plus years of experience in platform engineering or data engineering
6 plus years designing and optimizing data pipelines at TB to PB scale
Strong Java proficiency with a focus on clean, maintainable production code
Strong system design skills for big data and real-time workflows
Experience with lakehouse and streaming ecosystems such as Iceberg or Delta, plus Kafka or Flink or Spark
Languages: Java, Python
Framework: Spring Boot
Streaming: AWS Kinesis, Kafka, Flink
ETL: AWS Glue, Spark
Serverless: SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, Step Functions
-
Staff Data Platform Engineer
2 days ago
Toronto, ON, Canada Faire Full-timeFaire is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform to own the plumbing that moves data from production systems into analytical stores. You’ll design the next generation pipeline, build hard parts, and mentor others while ensuring reliability for analysts and data scientists. You’ll work with CockroachDB, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Iceberg on S3, Airflow,...
-
Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer
1 week ago
toronto, on, Canada Benevity Full-timeSenior Staff Data Platform Engineer Location Toronto, Ontario Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Department Technology Compensation Ontario Pay Tranparency Range CA$137,800 – CA$178,080 Meet Benevity Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care...
-
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
1 day ago
Toronto, ON, Canada Okta Inc. Full-timeSecure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate...
-
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
1 day ago
Toronto, ON, Canada Okta Full-time $160,000 - $220,000 ContractSecure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. the company secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who...
-
Staff Data Engineer, Product Risk
1 day ago
Toronto, ON, Canada EngineersOfAI Full-time $150,000 - $190,000 ContractStripe is seeking a Staff-level data engineering leader to drive high-impact data pipelines and ML-enabled data initiatives. You will mentor engineers, shape data architectures, and partner with product teams to deliver scalable, trustworthy data foundations.In this role, you will collaborate across Stripe's platforms to ensure reliable, explainable data...
-
Staff Platform Engineer
1 day ago
Toronto, ON, Canada Acquird.io Full-time €200,000 - €250,000 ContractStaff Platform Engineer - Role: Full-time, remote-first (significant Eastern Time overlap) - Location: Remote in Canada (with preference for candidates based in the GTA/Toronto) - Comp: $200,000-$250,000 base CAD + equity About Us We're building an AI-native platform that helps marketing and creative teams at top e-commerce brands understand which ads...
-
Toronto, ON, Canada Terminal Full-timeAbout Terminal Terminal builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. Commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies, including industry leaders like Intact Insurance, depend on our platform to access GPS, speeding, and vehicle data from 330+ telematics providers. We recently raised our Series A led by Battery Ventures and...
-
Staff Data Engineer: Lead Scalable Data
10 hours ago
Toronto, ON, Canada Loblaw Companies Limited Full-time €145,000 - €195,000 ContractA leading Canadian retail company seeks a Staff Data Engineer in Toronto to architect and build high-scale data platforms and systems. You will lead design initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable next-generation data capabilities. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with PySpark, cloud data platforms, and...
-
Toronto, ON, Canada Fivetran Full-timeFivetran is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Metadata team and own the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services that power the dbt platform. You will shape the technical direction, own major subsystems, and elevate design and code quality across the team. You'll spend time on the hardest problems, mentor engineers, and raise the...
-
Staff Data Engineer
1 day ago
Toronto, ON, Canada MaintainX Full-timeMaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 13,000 customers, including Duracell, McDonald's, Shell, DHL and Volvo, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 13.9 million managed assets and 79.5 million completed work orders. In August 2026 MaintainX became part of...