Data Platform Engineering Lead Tel Aviv, Israel

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The opportunity

Unity iAds is looking for a hands-on data infrastructure and platform engineer with proven leadership skills to lead and evolve our self-service data platform that powers petabyte-scale batch and streaming, near-real-time analytics, experimentation, and the feature platform. You'll guide an already excellent team of senior engineers, own reliability and cost efficiency, and be the focal point for pivotal, company-wide data initiatives- feature platform, lakehouse, and streaming.

Own the lakehouse backbone : Mature Iceberg at high scale—partitioning, compaction, retention, metadata—and extend our IcebergManager in-house product to automate the lakehouse management in a self serve fashion.

Unify online / offline for features : Drive Flink adoption and patterns that keep features consistent and low-latency for experimentation and production.

Make self-serve real : Build golden paths, templates, and guardrails so product / analytics / DS engineers can move fast safely.

Run multi-tenant compute efficiently : EMR on EKS powered by Karpenter on Spot instances; right-size Trino / Spark / Druid for performance and cost.

Cross-cloud interoperability : BigQuery + BigLake / Iceberg interop where it makes sense (analytics, experimentation, partnership).

What you'll be doing

• Leading a senior Data Platform team : setting clear objectives, unblocking execution, and raising the engineering bar.
• Owning SLOs, on-call, incident response, and postmortems for core data services.
• Designing and operating EMR on EKS capacity profiles, autoscaling policies, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Tuning Trino (memory / spill, CBO, catalogs), Spark / Structured Streaming jobs, and Druid ingestion / compaction for sub-second analytics.
• Extending Flink patterns for the feature platform (state backends, checkpointing, watermarks, backfills).
• Driving FinOps work : CUR-based attribution, S3 Inventory-driven retention / compaction, Reservations / Savings Plans strategy, OpenCost visibility.
• Partnering with product engineering, analytics, and data science & ML engineers on roadmap, schema evolution, and data product SLAs.
• Leveling up observability (Prometheus / VictoriaMetrics / Grafana), data quality checks, and platform self-service tooling.

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