Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer role is onsite in Mountain View, CA, with an annual base salary range of $175,000–$221,000. The role supports NewsBreak’s data infrastructure, which powers personalized news and information for its users. The engineer builds and operates batch and streaming data systems that support feed ranking, recommendations, experimentation, analytics, and machine-learning models. The role owns pipeline reliability and efficiency while enabling data scientists and platform teams to use dependable, well-modeled data.

What you'll do

• Design and operate high-throughput Kafka pipelines
• build and optimize Spark batch jobs processing billions of rows daily
• own pipeline reliability, incremental backfills, and processing costs
• instrument data quality checks, freshness monitors, and anomaly alerts
• define data freshness and completeness SLOs
• design structured and unstructured data models
• partner with data scientists and platform engineers
• improve compute costs and latency
• contribute to pipeline standards, Airflow orchestration, reusable Spark libraries, and data catalog hygiene
• mentor junior engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data infrastructure engineer

full-time

mountain view ca

newsbreak

data engineering

apache spark

kafka

python

sql

airflow

distributed data systems

$175k–$221k/year

health benefits

401(k) match

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health, dental, and vision care with 100% employee coverage
• 401(k) with company matching
• paid time off and holidays
• FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits
• team activity budget.

Why this role

The role owns production-scale streaming and batch infrastructure supporting NewsBreak’s personalized content platform.

About the employer

NewsBreak is hiring for this role. Industry: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers. Sector: 51.