United States onlyLead Data Platform Engineer
Milestone’s Arcules team is developing the future of intelligent security systems — a scalable, device-agnostic, cloud-first platform that empowers customers to understand and anticipate their environments with ease. No heavy installations. No complex IT support. Just clarity through intelligent systems and responsible AI.
We are looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to architect distributed data systems that support the Arcules product used by organizations worldwide. You will have full responsibility for technical direction alongside a diverse international team, with the flexibility of a fully remote role. Your efforts will consistently reflect our People First and Responsible Always principles in each technical decision.
This fully remote position welcomes candidates from any US location and centers ethics, inclusion, and togetherness as core values. No heavy technical barriers or complex installations—just straightforward, meaningful engineering.
What You'll Do
- Work with product managers and technology teams to understand roadmap priorities and shape product features that address customers' needs.
- Design and implement distributed data systems for the Arcules cloud platform using advanced data modeling, data structures, and software design patterns. Focus on building scalable microservices that empower organizations to understand and anticipate their environments responsibly and efficiently.
- Articulate design and architecture trade-offs and apply software design patterns to solve complex engineering problems efficiently.
- Ensure design and implementation align with sound engineering principles and best practices, focusing on testability, maintainability, and scalability.
- Provide overall project design and estimates for business and technology strategy needs during project scoping phases.
- Mentor other engineers to make sound technical decisions and help build effective software engineering practices, especially in adopting formal testing as part of the software development process.
- Promote good software engineering habits, such as clean code principles, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and “going end-to-end early”.
- Own, diagnose, and resolve complex system technical issues and code defects.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to help establish the technical roadmap to facilitate innovation and enhancement of product capabilities.
- Identify and work with SRE to implement automation opportunities to enhance efficiency in the software delivery cycle and the reliability of Milestone’s VSaaS product.
What You Have
- Demonstrated skill in designing, developing, and delivering reliable enterprise software solutions, including guiding the deployment of complex services that fulfill organizational and customer requirements.
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Experience with real-time data processing (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar).
- Experience with multiple database technologies, especially distributed columnar databases and time series.
- Experience designing and building distributed data systems for cloud-based applications.
Why Milestone?
With Milestone's Arcules team, engineers have broad opportunities to shape our product. You'll work alongside a team that values creativity, accountability, collaboration and outcomes. Together, we are simplifying complexity, empowering customers, and redefining the future of intelligent security in the cloud. Employees here have flexible work environments, opportunities for further education, and the ability to directly affect change in our Organization.
This annual for this position ranges from$175,000 to $195,000. Pay is based on the level, location, complexity, responsibility, and job duties of the specific position and is just one component of Milestone’s total compensation package. Additionally, we offer an attractive benefits package that includes medical/dental benefits, FSA or HSA, 401k with 6% Safe Harbor employer match, paid parental leave, generous PTO (20 days' vacation, 10 days paid sick time, and 12 company holidays), fully paid Short Term disability policy, fully paid Long Term disability policy, and Life Insurance. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to our Talent Partner about our compensation philosophy.
All employees must complete a background check. Employees in fiscal roles are also required to undergo a credit check. All information obtained during these checks is handled confidentially and shared only with authorized personnel.
Milestone is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Apply Today
Please apply at our website: www.milestonesys.com.
We look forward to receiving your application.
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