Staff Platform Engineer

4w1 month ago

Corient

Austin, US · Full-time · $160,000 – $190,000

About this role

Join a team at Corient that values ambition and empowers growth. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will architect and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure, focusing on storage, compute, and streaming layers. This role is central to enabling high- and ultra-high-net-worth clients to preserve their wealth for future generations.

You will develop reusable platform frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, and workflow execution. Own infrastructure engineering for data systems including compute, storage, and identity integration using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. Design platform observability, monitoring, and governance frameworks to ensure reliability.

Partner with analytics and data teams to enable broad platform usage. Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers, while leading system integration patterns including event-driven and batch architectures. This collaboration ensures platform adoption across the organization. Support M&A integration through scalable platform onboarding.

At Corient, your contributions are valued and your growth is supported. This role offers the chance to shape engineering standards and drive cross-team initiatives in a dynamic wealth management environment, directly impacting the lives of high-net-worth families. You will have the opportunity to work on complex challenges that truly matter.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale distributed systems.
Strong experience building and operating cloud-native platforms on Azure (compute, storage, networking).
Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and CI/CD automation.
Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems with defined SLAs/SLOs.
Experience with system integration patterns (event-driven architectures, APIs, streaming systems).
Strong understanding of identity, access control, secure platform design (e.g., Entra ID).
Experience implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for platforms.
Proven ability to lead cross-team platform initiatives and define engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Architect and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure, including storage, compute, and streaming layers.
Develop reusable platform frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, and workflow execution.
Own infrastructure engineering for data systems including compute, storage, and identity integration.
Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and build CI/CD pipelines.
Design platform observability, monitoring, and governance frameworks.
Lead system integration patterns including event-driven and batch architectures.
Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.
Support M&A integration through scalable platform onboarding.

Benefits

A culture that values your ambition and empowers your growth.
Opportunity to work with a team focused on helping high-net-worth families preserve their wealth.
Access to cutting-edge Azure cloud technologies and platform engineering practices.