Data Engineer

Ambush

full-time

Posted on: 8/28/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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Mid-LevelSenior

ApacheAWSPySparkPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Ambush is a People Company, a remote consulting firm focused on integrating remote talent into US product and development teams.
Design, build, and maintain high-volume data ingestion pipelines to process merchant transactions.
Implement robust measures to guarantee data quality, reliability, and optimal pipeline performance.
Share knowledge with the engineering team and foster a culture of agile, data-driven decision-making.
Manage tasks and time independently without micromanagement.
Communicate daily in English across cross-functional teams.

Professional experience as a Data Engineer specializing in designing and implementing solutions for high-volume, real-time, or batch data ingestion.
Experience with Python for building robust data pipelines.
Extensive experience with Apache Spark (Spark SQL, PySpark) to optimize and accelerate complex data processing jobs.
Strong understanding of the AWS ecosystem, with a focus on core data services like S3 and Lambdas.
Familiarity with AWS Glue as the primary engine for performing data processing and complex transformations.
Ability to act as a coach and leader, focusing on teaching and advocating for good engineering and collaboration practices.
Experience with Snowflake is a plus.
Excellent English communication skills.