Staff Data and Platform Engineer

What you’ll do as a Staff Engineer at Proof:

• Design and scale data pipelines and storage layers to support analytics, product features, and internal tooling.
• Work with the data team to build and maintain ETL pipelines including Postgres and ADX, ensuring data quality and discoverability across the company.
• Partner with engineers and SREs to investigate performance issues, provide metrics that highlight bottlenecks, and help teams make data-driven optimizations.
• Contribute to cross-region architecture and disaster-recovery strategy by ensuring data services and pipelines are resilient and globally available.
• Develop internal tools and dashboards (ADX, Grafana) to make operational and product data accessible and actionable.
• Streamline CI/CD processes for data services and automate infrastructure using Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Implement security and compliance best practices for data at rest and in motion.

What we’re looking for:

• Interest in managing Azure Data Explorer (ADX) clusters and their schemas, including ingestion patterns, scaling and resiliency.
• Deep understanding of SQL and experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases in production.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure preferred) and modern data storage (S3, data warehouses).
• Exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent) and an interest in performance analysis.
• Collaborative, self-directed, and eager to partner with application and SRE teams to drive performance improvements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comfort with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and automated deployments.Operational experience with ADX, KQL and Azure Data Factory (ADF).Background in performance engineering or capacity planning.
• Experience building multi-region, disaster-resilient data services.
• Knowledge of networking and security best practices in cloud-native data systems.
• Interest in creating tools and frameworks that help other engineers move faster with reliable data.Experience with HSMs and highly regulated industriesExperience with Ruby, Rails, React, Redis, Jenkins

Our stack:

• React: Front-end monolith
• Ruby on Rails: Backend monolith
• Java: A handful of backend services
• PostgreSQL, Redis, S3: state
• HSM/PKI/CA infrastructure
• Jenkins w/ Groovy & Python
• AWS Lambda
• IaC: terraform

Proof Pillars:

• Pave the Way
• Own It
• Act with Integrity
• Play to Win

Here are some of our great benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
• 401k Plan with a 4% match, beginning on your hire date
• Unlimited Sick and Vacation time
• 14 paid company holidays
• 2 company Chillax weeks (Summer & Winter)
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 4 week sabbatical after 5 years of continuous full time employment
• Health Reimbursement Arrangements for fertility and gender affirmation
• Lunch on Proof through Grubhub credit
• Monthly work from home stipend
• Professional development credit
• Monthly reimbursement for Wellness
• And more!