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Technology & Computing

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Compensation
$135 - $205 / hour

Job Description

Assess large-scale batch and streaming architectures, lakehouse design, data contracts, orchestration, lineage, and production data quality. Review AI-generated pipelines for correctness, idempotency, schema evolution, recovery behavior, observability, and cost-aware scalability. Identify weak ownership boundaries, silent data-quality failures, brittle dependencies, and governance gaps that would surface in production. Provide practical corrections using SQL, Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, and comparable modern data-platform patterns. Remote, project-based contract work. Scope and hours depend on project matching; the listed hourly range applies to matched work.

Why Apply

  • Expert-level compensationEarn $135 - $205/hr for work that values your professional judgment.
  • Flexible remote workContribute asynchronously around your existing professional commitments.
  • Meaningful model impactHelp advanced AI systems reason more accurately in technology & computing.
  • Focused projectsAccept only the opportunities that fit your experience and availability.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate advanced domain tasks and AI-generated responses for factual accuracy and professional judgment.
  • Apply current standards, methods, and risk considerations from technology & computing.
  • Document errors, edge cases, and the reasoning behind an ideal response.
  • Collaborate asynchronously with Alpheva's research and evaluation teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years building production data platforms or analytics infrastructure
  • Advanced SQL plus expertise in Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, or comparable systems
  • Experience designing reliable, observable, governed data products at scale

Company Description

Alpheva AI builds the expert data, evaluations, and real-world environments that help frontier AI systems become more capable and reliable. We partner with experienced professionals whose judgment can teach models how high-quality work is actually done.