Software Engineer, Data Platform
- Salary
- $168K - $324.5K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · New York
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 15 March 2026.
About the role
About Ramp
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
Ramp's standard text
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.
About the Role
The Data Platform builds infrastructure and tools that enable Ramp to realize business value from data. We partner closely with stakeholder teams to build this infrastructure and the applications on top of it. This role is particularly focused on building platforms that support the data science development lifecycle. You’ll partner with applied scientists, AI engineers, Risk engineers, and other ML developers on building infrastructure and tools that enable and accelerate the development of machine learning models.
What You’ll Do
- Build and integrate the components of Ramp's Analytics Platform and Machine Learning Platform.
- Build tools that improve the agility and data experience of Ramp's Applied Scientists, AI Engineers, and Risk Engineers.
- Collaborate with stakeholder teams on building and productionizing machine learning applications.
- Build reliable, scalable, maintainable, and cost-efficient systems across the stack.
What You Need
- Experience with workflow orchestrators like Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
- Experience building infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Knowledge of SQL and experience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar databases.
- Intuition around analytics and machine learning, and empathy for data science workflows.
- Strong Python programming skills.
Nice to Haves
- Expertise with AWS
- Previous experience building online machine learning systems.
- Previous experience building a feature store.
- Experience with Terraform and Datadog
- Experience building streaming systems.
Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
United States
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
- One Medical annual membership
- 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp
- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
- Pet insurance
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)
Canada
- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life
- Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
- Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)
- Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)
- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay
- Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health
United Kingdom
- Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
- Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
- Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay
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Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.
Other notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Beware of recruiting scams: Ramp will only contact you through official @Ramp.com email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
BigQuery · Datadog · Machine Learning · Redshift · Terraform
Rare in Ramp's other 67 open postings.
Standard for data engineering roles
AWS · Azure · GCP · Python · SQL · Snowflake
Common in data engineering postings at any company.
72% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Ramp's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Ramp's other open postings on this site.
The team: Infrastructure HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 3 open in Infrastructure. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (2 of 3), CI/CD (2 of 3), Terraform (2 of 3)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Technical Program Manager posted Oct 16
- Software Engineer, Production Engineering posted Apr 27
From the team and dates on Ramp's own job board.
Salary context
7 other open postings titled Software Engineer, Data Platform state a salary: median USD 130,600 to USD 220,000 a year.
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