Lytx, Inc. · 12 hours ago
Senior Staff Architect - Data Platform
Office - San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$207K/yr - $261K/yr
12+ years expLytx, Inc. is an industry leader in Video Telematics, managing large volumes of video and data from over 600,000 vehicles globally. The Senior Staff Architect will design and oversee the data platform systems, ensuring scalability and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers and driving strategic technical initiatives.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive the evolution of the technical blueprint and deployment views for data platform infrastructure (streaming, batch, lakehouse, warehouse, orchestration, services)
Architect AWS-native solutions leveraging MSK, Kinesis, EMR, S3, Redshift, Athena, EKS, and related services; optimize for performance, cost, and reliability
Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and principles; author foundational ADRs that shape platform direction
Design network topologies for secure data movement: VPC design, PrivateLink, security groups, and multi-account patterns
Establish data modeling standards for analytical and streaming workloads; design dimensional models, event schemas, and partitioning strategies
Conduct architecture reviews for platform and domain team projects; provide technical guidance and feedback
Mentor Engineers on architecture, AWS best practices, and data modeling
Evaluate new technologies through POCs; provide build vs. buy recommendations with clear technical rationale
Partner with engineering leadership on technical roadmap planning and cross-team coordination
Champion data quality, observability, and governance practices in platform design
Qualification
Required
12+ years in software/data engineering with 4+ years in architect or principal-level roles designing large-scale data platforms
Expert-level AWS proficiency: deep hands-on experience architecting production data platforms using MSK/Kafka, S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, EMR, EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, and CloudWatch. Must demonstrate mastery of AWS service integration patterns and best practices
Advanced networking expertise: proven ability to design secure, scalable AWS network architectures including VPC design, subnetting, routing, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, security groups, NACLs, and multi-account networking strategies. Experience with data egress optimization and cross-region architectures
Data modeling in depth: extensive experience designing data models for diverse workloads (OLTP, OLAP, streaming, lakehouse). Deep knowledge of dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, slowly changing dimensions, event schema design, and normalization/denormalization trade-offs. Expertise in schema evolution, partitioning strategies, and indexing for query optimization
Proven track record architecting and delivering complex distributed systems serving thousands of users or processing petabyte-scale data
Deep expertise across the modern data stack: streaming (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis), lakehouse (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake), orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), and cloud infrastructure patterns
Coding ability in typed backend languages (Java/Scala/C#) and Python; able to review code, prototype solutions, and guide implementation
Experience leading technical strategy for multi-team initiatives; translating business goals into architecture roadmaps with clear milestones
Exceptional communication skills: able to present technical proposals to executives, write compelling ADRs, and influence without authority
Track record mentoring senior engineers and elevating team capabilities through architecture reviews, pairing, and design feedback
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Telehealth
401(k) and 401(k) match
Life and AD&D insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
FTO or PTO
Employee Well-Being program
11 paid holidays plus 1 inclusive holiday per year
Volunteer Time Off
Employee Referral program
Education Reimbursement Program
Employee Recognition and Appreciation program
Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs
Company
Lytx, Inc.
Every day, companies send their most valuable assets into the world. Their people. Their equipment. Their reputations.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$769MKey Investors
Leader VenturesTriangle Peak PartnersInsight Partners
2020-01-08Acquired
2018-12-01Convertible Note
2018-04-06Private Equity· $700M
Leadership Team
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Rajesh Rudraradhya
Chief Technology Officer
Rob Bartels
Senior Vice President - New Ventures
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