Senior Data Platform Engineer – Defense Tech

What the role needs

• Built a high-throughput data platform from a blank page? Be the first dedicated data-platform engineer at a defense-tech company.
• They're hiring 2 senior data platform engineers .
• What you'll own
• The data platform, from ingestion to labeled datasets, built from scratch
• Backfill and reprocessing frameworks, data-quality metrics and alerting
• Time sync, lineage and geospatial context for sensor data
• Tooling for labeling and dataset creation
• You've architected a high-throughput data pipeline or platform from a blank page, not only run an existing one
• Python data stack (PyArrow, Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) plus Go, Rust or TypeScript
• 5+ years of experience (roughly 5–8; startup years count extra)
• US citizenship (required because of the defense work)

From the employer

Built a high-throughput data platform from a blank page? Be the first dedicated data-platform engineer at a defense-tech company. A Series A defense-tech company deploys autonomous sensor networks. You'd define how raw sensor and telemetry data becomes clean, labeled datasets for perception and foundation models, on a greenfield platform. The team is small and comes from leading space and defense-tech companies. They're hiring 2 senior data platform engineers . What you'll own • The data platform, from ingestion to labeled datasets, built from scratch • Backfill and reprocessing frameworks, data-quality metrics and alerting • Time sync, lineage and geospatial context for sensor data • Tooling for labeling and dataset creation Must-haves • You've architected a high-throughput data pipeline or platform from a blank page, not only run an existing one • Python data stack (PyArrow, Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) plus Go, Rust or TypeScript • Deploying pipelines on a cloud platform (AWS preferred) • 5+ years of experience (roughly 5–8; startup years count extra) • US citizenship (required because of the defense work) Bonus points • Sensor, audio, video or telemetry data • A labeling tool you built • Robotics, autonomy or space data platforms What's in it for you • $200k–$240k base + 0.25–0.5% equity • A greenfield platform that feeds directly into the company's models Good to know • Full-time, remote in the US; Los Angeles is strongly preferred, with occasional visits to the office in the LA area • Process: 30-minute screen with the talent lead → technical interview with the CTO (system design at block-diagram level, conversational, no coding pad) → on-site in the LA area → offer When you apply, please include • Your CV (PDF), your LinkedIn URL , and GitHub if you have one • The data platform you stood up from scratch: volumes, latency and lineage • Where you're based, and whether occasional visits to the LA area work for you • Confirmation that you're a US citizen, and how soon you could start • Your base salary expectation, your notice period, and any other interview processes you're in Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days. RnB Consultancy | Netherlands | 3604 AB Maarssen | KvK 71489703