Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Platform

Company Description

Shopify is the leading omni-channel commerce platform. Merchants use Shopify to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including mobile, web, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business, from payments to shipping. The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify currently powers over millions of merchants' businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.

**Job Description**:
Our Data Platform Engineering group builds and maintains the platform that delivers accessible data to power decision-making at Shopify for over a million merchants. We’re hiring high-impact developers for our Reliability group:

- The Reliability group operates the data platform efficiently in a consistent and reliable manner. They are reliability engineers that build tools and infrastructure with other teams within the Data Platform to leverage and encourage consistency. They champion reliability across shared platform infrastructure. Think DevOps for Data.
- Data reliability engineers ensure that data flows through the platform on time and as expected. They ensure data services are performing according to service level objectives, that all systems have service level indicators, and if those systems fall below their objectives, recovery is swift.

**Qualifications**:
While our teams value specialized skills, they've also got a lot in common. We're looking for a(n):

- High-energy self-starter with experience and passion for data and big data scale processing. You enjoy working in fast-paced environments and love making an impact.
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to translate technical concepts into easy to understand language for our stakeholders.
- Excitement for working with a remote team; you value collaborating on problems, asking questions, delivering feedback, and supporting others in their goals whether they are in your vicinity or entire cities apart.
- Solid software backend engineer: experienced in building and maintaining systems at scale with reliability metrics as a default.

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Shopify typically has 4-6 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Working with deployments of distributed query and compute engines (Spark, Flink, Druid, Trino/PrestoDB)
- Familiarity with modern Big-Data storage technologies (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta)
- Strong programming fundamentals, ideally in a variety of languages (Java, Scala, Python, Go)
- Measuring query latencies, resource allocation and management, and data lake performance (Presto, SQL)
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform)
- An understanding of operational toil, observability, performance, and scalability
- Familiarity with incident response and management tools like PagerDuty
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) are a plus
- If you don’t know all this stuff, don’t worry, we’ll teach you

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Additional Information- At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying._