Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

Rocket is seeking a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer to help shape the future of enterprise data infrastructure across Rocket and affiliated business platforms. This is a high impact technical leadership role for someone who brings deep expertise across cloud, systems, databases, and data platforms, and who wants to help modernize critical infrastructure, influence technical standards, and drive durable improvements across a complex enterprise environment.

About the role

• Partner with technical program leadership to assess, modernize, and improve enterprise data infrastructure environments.
• Lead technical discovery, dependency mapping, architecture reviews, migration readiness assessments, and operational readiness planning to identify technical gaps, operational risks, reliability concerns, compliance gaps, and modernization opportunities.
• Define clear technical recommendations and practical roadmaps that improve reliability, security, scalability, observability, and operational maturity.
• Partner with engineering teams to support migration and modernization efforts (involving on-premise infrastructure, AWS, Snowflake, and related enterprise data platforms) to move infrastructure and data platforms into a more predictable, measurable, and supportable state.
• Establish standards and best practices for monitoring, alerting, logging, backup/recovery, patching, access controls, data movement, service ownership, and production support.
• Provide senior technical judgment, mentorship, and hands-on leadership to help teams make durable improvements across complex infrastructure and data environments.

About you

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, cloud engineering, data infrastructure, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• Expert-level experience with AWS and enterprise cloud infrastructure patterns.
• Expert-level understanding of database and data platform technologies, including relational databases, data warehouses, distributed data systems, storage, backup/recovery, replication, performance, and operational support.
• Experience with on-premise to cloud migration programs, including technical discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, validation, cutover support, and operational readiness.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, change management, resiliency, disaster recovery, and production operations.
• Experience working with security, compliance, risk, audit, and infrastructure standards in enterprise environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and executive audiences.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services, mortgage, banking, lending, insurance, or other regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with data platform technologies such as Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, Aurora, Cassandra, Kafka, or similar technologies.
• Deep experience with AWS services and patterns including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC networking, FSx, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, backup/recovery, security logging, and enterprise account governance.
• Experience leading or supporting multiple cloud migrations, data platform transformations, or large-scale infrastructure modernization efforts.
• Experience with technical integration work related to mergers, acquisitions, or affiliated business environments.
• Experience defining infrastructure standards, operational maturity models, platform governance mechanisms, or engineering best practices.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, platform consolidation, or infrastructure efficiency programs.
• Experience improving data access controls, data flow visibility, lineage, auditability, and operational controls across enterprise data platforms.

What you'll get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind.

On-Call Expectations

This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.

About us

Rocket is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage®, which was founded in 1985. Today, we're a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate and more. We're insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $149,000.00-$318,000.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company's current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.