Data Platform Engineer, GCP

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About the role

  • GCP Data Platform Engineer maintaining and optimizing production data platforms for Innodata, a global data engineering and AI services company. Supporting Airflow pipelines, GCP infrastructure, reliability, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

  • Support and maintain production GCP data platforms, pipelines, and workflows across batch and streaming workloads
  • Troubleshoot and optimize Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow workflows, including DAG failures, dependencies, scheduling, retries, latency, and SLA issues
  • Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data latency, performance degradation, configuration problems, and infrastructure issues
  • Monitor platform health and improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency
  • Optimize existing pipelines and workloads to improve refresh times, throughput, query performance, and platform stability
  • Support platform, infrastructure, configuration, and dependency upgrades while maintaining production stability and compliance
  • Perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes for recurring production issues
  • Support IAM, access controls, monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational governance
  • Collaborate with client and cross-functional Data Engineering, BI/Analytics, Application Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams
  • Review existing architectures and recommend incremental improvements
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and platform support procedures

Requirements

  • 3–7 years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related role
  • Strong hands-on experience building, supporting, or maintaining production workloads on Google Cloud Platform
  • Strong experience with BigQuery and Cloud Spanner
  • Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Pub/Sub, batch/streaming data pipelines, and Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow
  • Strong Python and SQL skills
  • Understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, permissions, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production operations
  • Experience troubleshooting complex production environments and performing root-cause analysis
  • Understanding of data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, data quality, performance optimization, and reliability
  • Ability to understand existing systems, codebases, pipelines, configurations, and client-specific tools and workflows
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Preferred: App Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, CI/CD and DevOps on GCP, Terraform, data observability, automated data-quality monitoring, Vertex AI, and enterprise analytics tooling

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$80,000 - CA$150,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowApacheBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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