Senior Software Engineer - Data platform

Responsibilities

• Design and implement foundational frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, schema validation, and metadata management.
• Build robust, scalable pipelines for Change Data Capture (CDC) using Debezium integrated with Kafka and Spark.
• Optimize data serving layers powered by Trino, including metadata syncing, security filtering, and performance tuning.
• Partner with SRE and Infra teams to build autoscaling, self-healing, and cost-optimized Spark jobs on AWS EMR.
• Implement observability features such as logs, metrics, and alerts for critical platform services and data pipelines.
• Define and enforce standards for schema evolution, lineage tracking, and data governance.
• Automate platform operations using CI/CD pipelines, metadata-driven configurations, and infrastructure-as-code.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in data platform, infrastructure, or backend systems engineering roles.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Expertise in Apache Spark with production experience on AWS EMR.
• Experience building or managing CDC pipelines using tools like Debezium, Kafka Connect, or custom connectors.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala, and Unix/Linux systems.
• Experience serving data using Trino or Presto in a multi-tenant environment.
• Strong understanding of open table formats like Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.

About the Company

Tekion is positively disrupting the automotive industry with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform. Our ecosystem includes the Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC), Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC), and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC), connecting the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. Using cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI, Tekion enables the best automotive retail experiences for OEMs, retailers, and consumers globally.