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This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about building scalable data platforms and distributed systems while working across modern cloud and infrastructure technologies.\nYou will design, develop, and operate large-scale data pipelines and services that process massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in both cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and on-premises environments. 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