Senior Data Engineer (US)

permanent
Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, warehouse models, and analytics solutions, balancing data quality, business value, and speed.
  • Build and maintain natural language interfaces to data and analytics, applying GenAI/LLM techniques to make data more accessible across the business.
  • Use GenAI coding tools and practices in daily development to improve code quality, testing, and delivery speed.
  • Continuously evaluate new technologies that could improve and scale the team's data platform and technology stack.
  • Establish and follow standards for SQL development, data modeling, testing, documentation, code reviews, and production support.
  • Support production data pipelines through on-call rotation and incident response, partnering with engineering, analytics, and business teams.
  • Document and maintain expertise in the technology stack and product domain, translating business needs into technical solutions with product management.

Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years building reliable, high-performance, large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on streaming and data pipelines.
  • Experience working with and maintaining multi-tenant SaaS experiences.
  • Experience building natural language interfaces over data warehouses, including applying GenAI/LLM techniques to data and analytics.
  • Enterprise-level experience with at least one large-scale analytical data warehouse or query engine: StarRocks, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, or Trino.
  • Expertise writing, optimizing, and analyzing SQL.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating distributed data platforms on AWS or GCP.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka and Spark.
  • Experience scaling data modeling and warehousing.
  • Proficiency in python.
  • Experience with Cube or other semantic layers.
  • Experience with scheduling tools such as Airflow.
  • Familiarity with the BI tool Metabase.
  • Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, React, or other adjacent languages.

Salary and Perks

Pay range: $155K - $170K

  • Excellent PTO program
  • Great health benefits
  • Casual and friendly environment
  • Remote work
  • Leadership team believes in personal and professional growth

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