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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Platform Engineer - **Company:** RAZR Marketing, Inc. - **Location:** Minnetonka, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Query Performance, Amazon Web Services, Databases, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Software Debugging, PostgreSQL, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Pulumi, Snowflake, Debezium, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines - **Published:** July 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=25f3f12a2cdbbf30 ## About the Role * You can't stand not knowing; you have an unquenchable thirst to understand why * You are an active participant, never a spectator * You are focused on outcomes and not the time it takes to achieve them Enjoy the Ride * You are grateful for both life's challenges and opportunities * You passionately pursue excellence in everything you do * You laugh often and don't take yourself too seriously * You love change, and living in the gray is energizing to you * You can't wait to get out of bed in the morning & get on with your day, * 7+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles * Deep experience with streaming architectures: Kafka, Flink, CDC patterns (Debezium or equivalent) * Strong Snowflake expertise: dynamic tables, warehouse optimization, access control, cost management * Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK) * SQL fluency - you can write, optimize, and debug complex analytical queries * Experience designing medallion or multi-layer data architectures * Track record of leading technical design decisions and mentoring engineers Preferred Experience * Experience with DeltaStream or similar managed stream processing platforms * Familiarity with Sigma or modern BI tools that push compute to the warehouse * Experience with PostgreSQL CDC pipelines specifically * Background in financial services, loyalty/rewards, or payments domains * Experience operating data platforms on AWS (RDS, Secrets Manager, ECS, Lambda), * You'll operate with significant autonomy in technical decisions within the data platform domain * You'll partner closely with application engineers who produce the source data and analysts who consume it * You'll balance hands-on implementation with architectural guidance - this is not a purely advisory role ## Description We're looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our data platform infrastructure. You'll own the end-to-end architecture of our CDC-based ETL pipelines and reporting infrastructure, from change capture at the database level through to analyst-ready datasets and dashboards. 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