Senior Data Platform Engineer

Medium is one of the world's most influential writing platforms, connecting millions of readers with ideas that matter. They are seeking a Senior Engineer to play a key role in their Data Platform team, responsible for building and evolving the data infrastructure that powers Medium’s business.

Responsibilities:

• 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.)

Requirements:

• 4–6 years of experience across data engineering, backend engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Proficient in Python
• Comfortable working across the stack
• Experience with data pipeline tooling (Snowflake, dbt, Spark, or similar)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience with backend services work
• Approach legacy systems with curiosity
• Care about downstream users and understand the measure of a great platform
• Good instincts about systems, adaptable and eager to learn
• Ability to advocate for an approach while remaining genuinely open to better ideas
• Experience using AI to improve a team's leverage, reach, output and impact
• You're comfortable operating without a dedicated PM layer: you've owned product/platform direction, not just technical execution
• You personally use Medium and are genuinely excited to contribute to its mission: empowering humans to write meaningfully for other humans