Tessera Labs
Senior Data Platform Engineer
$200K–$300K
Remote in the U.S. +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Remote in the U.S.
San Jose Office (HQ) - Experience
- At least 4+ years as a Data Platform Engineer.
About the job
Build and operate reusable data platform software that connects enterprise systems and enables data access, querying, movement, and processing across applications, analytics, and AI.
What you'll do
- Develop services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization, and build reusable connector frameworks.
- Improve query and data-movement performance through techniques such as partitioning and parallelism.
- Build reliable workload orchestration and take platform capabilities from design through production operation.
What they ask for
- Strong Python and SQL, with experience building maintainable, tested production software.
- Experience developing backend services, data infrastructure, or data platform components.
- Understanding of relational databases, query optimization, data formats, and data access tradeoffs.
- Experience with concurrent or distributed workloads, including failure handling, resource management, and performance debugging.
Nice to have
- Experience with analytical query engines, lakehouse technologies, workflow orchestration, enterprise-system integrations, or containerized infrastructure.
- Experience building connector libraries, developer-facing APIs, or shared platforms; familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP is also noted.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
Build data platform capabilities that make enterprise data usable across applications, analytics, and AI.
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