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# Senior Data Platform Engineer - Defense Tech

- **Company:** RnB Consultancy
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $240,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Github, Python (Programming Language), NumPy, SciPy, TypeScript, Cloud Platform System, Pandas, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=69cfc8a9aef93ae3

## About the Role

* 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)

## Description

* 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, * 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