Lead Data Engineer

About Karbon

Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US Australia New Zealand Canada the United Kingdom and the Philippines. We are well-funded ranked #1 on G2 growing rapidly and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work certification and on Fortune magazines Best Small Workplaces List.

Our Engineering Standards

Balance Speed and Quality

Engineers are expected to balance delivery speed with a strong commitment to quality meeting agreed timelines while producing reliable maintainable and well-tested solutions. Sound judgment in making trade-offs between velocity and long-term sustainability is essential.

Collaborate Effectively

Engineering is collaborative by default. Team members are expected to contribute constructively in design discussions reviews and planning communicate clearly about progress and risks and support shared team outcomes in both hybrid and distributed environments.

Build and Maintain Systems

Engineers are responsible for building new capabilities while maintaining and improving existing systems. This includes designing scalable solutions reducing technical debt supporting operational stability and contributing to continuous improvement.

Operate with Autonomy

A high degree of autonomy is expected. Given clear objectives engineers should independently translate problems into actionable technical approaches proactively identify improvements and continuously expand relevant technical expertise.

Ownership and Accountability

Ownership is fundamental. Engineers are accountable for the quality performance and customer impact of their work from design through post-release support and are expected to follow through on commitments.

AI-Enabled Engineering

AI is reshaping how software is built and we are committed to leveraging it as a force multiplier for creativity impact and capability. Engineers are expected to confidently apply strong technical fundamentals while embracing AI tools and approaches to enhance productivity problem-solving and innovation. Curiosity adaptability and enthusiasm for integrating AI into meaningful product development are essential.

Contribute to Team Culture

Engineers contribute positively to a culture of professionalism transparency low bureaucracy and mutual respect strengthening team performance through authenticity curiosity and collaboration.

About the Role

As a Platform Engineer on the Platform Team youll thrive in a diverse and dynamic environment working alongside seasoned professionals including senior developers tech leads and architects. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps youll build and maintain the infrastructure tooling and automation that powers Karbons engineering teams while driving continuous improvement across our cloud platform

Your primary responsibilities include hands-on development infrastructure management and operational excellence. Youll design and evolve shared platform capabilities that improve reliability scalability and developer productivity across the organisation.

AI is reshaping how software gets built and we see it as a force multiplier for engineers. Youll be expected to use AI tools effectively to accelerate development improve productivity and enhance engineering workflows.

Some of your main responsibilities will include:

• Building and evolving shared platform capabilities that improve reliability scalability and developer productivity across teams
• Designing building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions to enable reliable repeatable production releases
• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision and manage cloud environments at scale
• Supporting and improving containerised workloads using Docker and Azure Container Apps
• Building and maintaining monitoring alerting and observability systems using Datadog and OpenTelemetry to ensure production visibility
• Driving cross-team platform and architectural improvements proactively identifying and eliminating technical debt
• Investigating and resolving infrastructure and platform-related issues contributing to operational resilience and disaster recovery
• Improving developer experience through tooling automation and self-service infrastructure
• Collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to implement platform solutions and streamline developer workflows
• Contributing to cloud cost optimisation and security fundamentals including identity access management and secrets management
• Delivering operational support for the platform as part of a team on-call roster rotation

What Sets You Apart!

• 35 years of experience in software engineering platform engineering DevOps or site reliability engineering
• Strong proficiency in C# .NET and SQL with the ability to design scalable maintainable systems
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Jenkins or similar tools
• Strong experience with Azure cloud platforms including Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and operating production systems
• Experience with Docker containerisation and cloud-native application deployments (Azure Container Apps or similar orchestration platforms)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems design including fault tolerance scalability and event-driven architectures
• Solid understanding of observability and production operations including monitoring logging tracing and SLO-driven reliability (Datadog OpenTelemetry)
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling automation and self-service infrastructure
• Proven experience driving cross-team platform or architectural improvements
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals including identity access management and secrets management
• Good understanding of infrastructure fundamentals (Linux Windows DNS networking)
• Experience automating workflows using PowerShell Bash Python or similar scripting languages
• Strong foundations in software design clean architecture and engineering best practices with experience using Git in collaborative environments
• Familiarity with a range of data storage technologies (SQL Elasticsearch NoSQL) and their trade-offs
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across distributed international engineering teams
• A proactive approach to problem-solving with a self-starter mindset that adapts well to changing priorities
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Our Core Technology Stack!

We build modern scalable software on a thoughtfully designed stack:

• Frontend: TypeScript and JavaScript across Ember (today) React and React Native.
• Backend: .NET / C# (Web Core) powering distributed services.
• Data: SQL Server with performance and integrity at scale.
• Cloud: Microsoft Azure.
• Observability: Metrics logging alerting and dashboards in Datadog because we believe you cant improve what you dont measure.

Our architecture continues to evolve as we scale. We invest in event-driven systems well-defined microservices and containerized deployments (Azure Container Apps) to build resilient decoupled and high-performing software.

If you care about clean service boundaries reliable systems and shipping with confidence youll feel right at home here.

Why Work at Karbon

• Gain global experience across the USA Australia New Zealand UK Canada and the Philippines
• 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra Karbon Days off a year
• Flexible working environment
• Work with (and learn from) an experienced high-performing team
• Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
• A collaborative team-oriented culture that embraces diversity invests in development and provides consistent feedback
• Generous parental leave

Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If youve made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesnt perfectly align we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role!

We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We dont discriminate based on race gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression lifestyle age educational background national origin religion physical or cognitive ability and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization.

Generally if you are a good person we want to talk to you.

If there are any adjustments or accommodations that we can make to assist you during the recruitment process and your journey at Karbon contact us at for a confidential discussion.

At this time we request that agency referrals are not submitted for this position. We appreciate your understanding and encourage direct applications from interested candidates. Thank you!