Distinguished Engineer, Data Platform

CloudZero
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 275,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior data platform architect responsible for shaping CloudZero’s next-generation streaming data platform, dimensional cost model, hot/cold storage architecture, and the query engine. You’ll define roadmaps, drive foundational decisions, and lead an engineering team to move from batch pipelines to streaming-first architecture, delivering sub-second cost attribution for engineers.

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CloudZero
CloudZero
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Distinguished Engineer, Data Platform

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Job Summary

Senior data platform architect responsible for shaping CloudZero’s next-generation streaming data platform, dimensional cost model, hot/cold storage architecture, and the query engine. You’ll define roadmaps, drive foundational decisions, and lead an engineering team to move from batch pipelines to streaming-first architecture, delivering sub-second cost attribution for engineers.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the Data Platform Architecture and lead end-to-end technical design for CloudZero's next-generation data platform from event ingestion to API surface
  • •Document architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and migration strategies with RFC-driven rigor
  • •Shape and drive every layer of the new architecture: ingestion, stream processing, real-time serving, analytical storage, query layer, and API
  • •Design and deliver CloudZero's real-time data pipeline from ingestion through enrichment to serving
  • •Establish SLOs for throughput, latency, and correctness and build operational playbooks to make the system trustworthy enough to replace batch pipelines

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 275,000 - 330,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in data engineering with a clear trajectory toward principal or staff-level architecture
  • •Built and operated large-scale data platforms serving tens of millions of events per day in production
  • •Deep experience with streaming systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, or Spark Streaming at real production throughput
  • •Strong hands-on fluency with modern open table formats including Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi, including compaction, partitioning strategy, and time-travel queries
  • •Designed hot/cold storage architectures with explicit latency SLOs per tier
Experience:10+ yearsData engineeringCloudSaaS
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:KafkaKinesisFlinkSpark StreamingApache IcebergDelta LakeHudiSQLPartition pruningPredicate pushdownTime-travel

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

CloudZero
CloudZero provides a cloud cost intelligence platform that gives engineering and finance teams real-time visibility and allocation of cloud spend to products, features, and customers, enabling cost optimization and improved unit economics for enterprises.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2016
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