Staff Data and Platform Engineer
Proof
Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Oct 8, 2025
We are looking for an experienced Staff Data & Platform Engineer to join our team.
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 LambdaIa
- C: 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!
This job will be posted and accepting applications through October 10, 2025.
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