Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer – KFI Data Platform

🕒 May 26

🏄 California, Colorado, +11 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $110k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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KBRA

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Enterprise • SaaS

KBRA is a market leader in providing ratings and insights into the private credit landscape, particularly focusing on sectors such as financial institutions, public finance, and structured credit. They offer a wide array of publications, including pre-sale reports, rating actions, and research. With a strong emphasis on data analytics, KBRA provides industry specialists and applications that deliver high-quality data and advanced analytics to the global financial community. Their offerings include various tools and services like KBRA Analytics and KBRA Financial Intelligence, catering specifically to the needs of investors and originators in private credit and related sectors.

📋 Description

• Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps) • Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them. • Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines. • Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc. • Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team. • Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos.

🎯 Requirements

• Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas) • Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA) • Terraform at module-author level • Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning) • Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives) • Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits and paid time off • Paid family and disability leave • 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested) • Educational and professional development financial assistance • Employee referral bonus program