IMC
Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance
$185K–$225K
Chicago, United States · Full-time · Posted Apr 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in software engineering or data engineering with an operational or production focus; experience with performance-critical or high-throughput systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred.
About the job
Operates and improves the Performance Team’s data platform, ensuring its data pipelines are reliable, correct, observable, and efficient.
What you'll do
- Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot ETLs, data pipelines, and related GitLab CI/CD workflows; resolve issues to root cause.
- Build data quality checks, reports, alerting, operational tooling, automation, and runbooks.
- Monitor resource use and tune workloads to address bottlenecks and improve performance and efficiency.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with PySpark and Pandas.
- Experience supporting production ETL or data processing systems.
- Familiarity with Git-based development workflows and CI/CD systems.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ownership in a reliability-critical environment.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred.
- GitLab preferred; exposure to workload scheduling, resource management, or cluster-based compute.
Pay
$185,000 — $225,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PySpark, Pandas, GitLab, CI/CD
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