Select Source Solutions

Data Platform Engineer IV

Remote
Full Time
Mid Level

The remote Data Platform Engineer IV implements and maintains cloud-native AWS data platforms for scientific and environmental workloads. You will build the pipelines, storage, integrations, APIs, automation, governance, and monitoring that move scientific, geospatial, and Earth observation data from source to the researchers and programs that rely on it, working from the Senior Architect's designs while writing clean, tested code and providing feedback on feasibility and trade-offs.

Responsibilities include:

  • Build cloud-native data platforms on AWS that support scientific and environmental data workloads
  • Build and maintain ingestion and processing pipelines for large, complex scientific datasets, including Earth observation, weather, and environmental data
  • Implement storage layers designed for scientific data formats and access patterns (e.g., NetCDF, HDF5, Zarr, GeoTIFF)
  • Implement data governance, metadata management, and lifecycle controls so federal and scientific data is trusted, discoverable, and well managed, with attention to provenance and reproducibility
  • Develop integrations with internal systems, external scientific data sources, and third-party services
  • Build APIs and services that expose data and platform capabilities to scientists, analysts, and downstream systems
  • Work with scientists and data users to understand how data is produced and consumed, and make sure the platform serves their needs
  • Implement cloud-based data platform components from solution designs and direction provided by the Senior Architect
  • Automate deployment, orchestration, testing, and operations using infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices
  • Add monitoring, logging, and alerting so pipelines are observable and reliable
  • Give the Senior Architect feedback on feasibility and trade-offs during implementation
  • Write clean, tested, well-documented code and participate in code reviews
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

What You Will Bring

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a physical, environmental, or Earth science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of professional software or data engineering experience, including building production data platforms
  • Demonstrated experience building pipelines or platforms for scientific, geospatial, environmental, or Earth observation data
  • Hands-on experience with scientific or geospatial data formats (e.g., NetCDF, HDF5, Zarr, GeoTIFF)
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Hands-on experience implementing solutions in a major cloud environment, with AWS strongly preferred
  • Experience building data ingestion and processing pipelines with workflow or orchestration tools
  • Experience with cloud data storage technologies (object storage, data lakes, warehouses, databases)
  • Experience implementing data governance, cataloging, and lifecycle management practices
  • Experience delivering solutions in federal or other regulated environments, including security and compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP)
  • Experience building APIs and system integrations
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control (Git), code review, and documentation
  • Ability to interpret architectural designs and implement them as scalable, production-ready solutions
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with architects, scientists, and cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting Earth observation, weather, climate, or environmental data platforms
  • Experience working in scientific research, federal science, or government environments
  • Experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Dask, Flink) and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
  • Familiarity with modern data and table formats (e.g., Parquet, Avro, Iceberg, Delta Lake)
  • Experience with data governance, metadata management, and data catalog tools
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Background in cloud security, IAM, and cost optimization (FinOps)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker)
  • AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, or DevOps Engineer)
Share

Apply for this position

Required*
We've received your resume. Click here to update it.
Attach resume or Paste resume
Attach resume as .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .txt, or .rtf (limit 5MB) or Paste resume

Paste your resume here or Attach resume file

To comply with government Equal Employment Opportunity and/or Affirmative Action reporting regulations, we are requesting (but NOT requiring) that you enter this personal data. This information will not be used in connection with any employment decisions, and will be used solely as permitted by state and federal law. Your voluntary cooperation would be appreciated. Learn more.
Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran
  • A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
    • a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
    • a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
  • A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
  • An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
  • An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
Veteran status


Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 07/31/2029
Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Please check one of the boxes below:

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

You must enter your name and date
Human Check*