Data Platform Engineer

A Data Platform Engineer designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure and platforms used to collect, store, process, govern, and access data. The role focuses on creating scalable, reliable, secure, and reusable data platforms for data engineers, analysts, data scientists, and applications. Typical responsibilities include cloud data infrastructure, data lakes and warehouses, streaming platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, access control, and platform automation. Compared with a Data Engineer, the role generally focuses more on the underlying platform and its operational capabilities than on individual data pipelines and transformations.