Job Summary:
Peregrine is a company that helps public safety organizations and governments address societal challenges using their AI-enabled platform. They are seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer to own the data layer and build systems for ingesting, storing, and serving real-time operational data, enabling critical decision-making for their customers.
Responsibilities:
• Designing and operating a high-throughput, real-time data integration platform across diverse customer environments
• Architecting a scalable open table format layer for reliable data storage at petabyte scale
• Building and optimizing distributed data processing pipelines with Apache Spark and adjacent streaming technologies
• Driving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across the full data infrastructure stack
• Collaborating with platform and product engineering teams to define data contracts, schemas, and integration patterns
• Establishing best practices, tooling, and patterns that raise the quality bar for data infrastructure across the organization
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2-5 years of experience operating large-scale data infrastructure systems in production environments
• Experience with open table formats, particularly Apache Iceberg — including schema evolution, partitioning strategies, compaction, and time travel
• Extensive hands-on experience with Apache Spark for batch and streaming data processing at scale
• Background in real-time data integration and stream processing, leveraging technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or equivalents
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration using Airflow or similar tools
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and/or Scala, with a track record of writing production-quality code
• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms, including S3-based data lake architectures
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployment of data workloads
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Located in San Francisco and open to working in office
Company:
Context changes everything. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.