Responsibilities

We re looking for a Senior Engineer to play a key role in Medium s Data Platform team, building and evolving the data infrastructure that powers Medium’s business. As a member of the data platform team, you ll own the reliability, performance, and long-term architecture of the systems that data scientists and engineers at Medium depend on every day—everything from ingestion and transformation to orchestration and observability. The work you do will ensure that readers and writers on Medium can receive personalized recommendations, view up-to-date writer stats, make subscription payments without friction, and reach the right readers with each post.
This isn t a pure data engineering role; it s part data engineering, part DevOps, part SRE, and part backend software engineering, with the massive opportunity to help transform a collection of aging systems into a modern foundation that engineers across the org are proud to build on. The role is equal parts stewardship and transformation, and we’re looking for someone who can keep critical systems running reliably while also moving us toward our vision of a modern, well-instrumented data platform. If you’re someone who finds both of those things interesting—someone who can triage a pipeline failure in the morning and spend the afternoon thinking through a migration strategy, keeping the long-term vision in mind—this might be the role for you.
Build, maintain, and modernize the data infrastructure that Medium s product and engineering teams depend on to do their best work
Own reliability of our data infrastructure: Identify risks, instrument better observability, and drive improvements that reduce toil for the whole org
Bring a product mindset to platform ownership, partnering with engineers and stakeholders across teams to understand their data infrastructure needs and help design systems they can use and trust
Contribute to the long-term platform roadmap, including migration of end-of-life systems toward modern, maintainable alternatives
Write and review Python-based tooling for pipeline orchestration, data quality, and infrastructure automation
Apply DevOps and SRE best practices: think about uptime, monitoring, alerting, and deployment practices as first-class concerns
Mentor teammates and improve shared standards around reliability, documentation, and platform ergonomics
Attend Medium s twice-yearly, in-person offsites (hosted in locations around the U.S.)
Who are you? (Skills, Knowledge Expertise)
You have 4–6 years of experience across data engineering, backend engineering, DevOps, or SRE, and you’re comfortable wearing multiple hats (sometimes at once). You re a generalist who thrives in ambiguity who doesn’t need the perfect playbook; but you can figure out what the right thing to do is and do it!

Senior Data Platform Engineer at Medium · LumiJobs

Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Qualification

Preferred

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Medium

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