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Senior Data Platform Engineer

100% Fully RemoteFull-time$160,000 - $190,000 per yearPosted October 1, 2026

Overview

Talon Defense seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and build scalable data services that support analytics and AI applications. As part of a larger engineering team, this role will develop data models, storage architectures, and access interfaces that make complex information reliable, traceable, and accessible to downstream systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement data models and storage architectures for complex, evolving datasets
  • Build data services and access interfaces that support analytics, machine learning, and enterprise applications
  • Implement data versioning, lineage, and history tracking to support reproducibility and auditability
  • Develop approaches for consolidating multi-source information while preserving source context and data quality
  • Optimize database performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to define data requirements and integrate platform capabilities
  • Contribute to automated testing, code reviews, and documentation of data models and services

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience, certifications, or military technical training
  • Experience designing and delivering production data platforms with versioned, temporal, or bi-temporal data models
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database
  • Experience implementing append-only storage, event sourcing, or comparable patterns for preserving data history
  • Proficiency in Python or another language used to develop data services and processing pipelines
  • Ability to model conflicting attributes, source lineage, and uncertain entity associations while preserving data history
  • Experience building tested data access interfaces and documenting data models
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within a multidisciplinary technical team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with content-addressed storage and reproducible data processing
  • Experience with knowledge graphs or entity-centric data architectures
  • Experience supporting sensitive data in secure cloud environments
  • Experience tuning database performance and implementing data access controls

Compensation

$160,000 - $190,000 per year

Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) with company match; paid time off and federal holidays; life insurance; professional development and certification reimbursement.

Annual performance bonus; employee referral bonuses.

Salary offered will depend on numerous qualifying factors such as clearance, degree and the years and depth of applicable experience.

Security Clearance

An active Secret security clearance is required before starting work. Interim Secret determinations are acceptable. Top Secret clearance is preferred. Candidates must meet applicable U.S. person requirements and maintain the required clearance throughout employment.

Talon Defense, Inc. provides equal opportunities to qualified employees and prospective employees without regard to age, race, color, religion, pregnancy, sex, national origin, veteran status, uniformed status, physical or mental disability, or other protected characteristics.

Interested in this role?

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Questions about this position? Contact us at careers@talondefense.com