
Senior Data Engineer
Atreides
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Architect scalable systems for ingesting, processing, and querying high-volume datasets
- Lead development of core data infrastructure components, including scalable data pipelines
- Design, implement, and maintain robust orchestration frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) to schedule, monitor, and manage large-scale data workflows
- Develop and maintain self-service platform SDKs, libraries, and tooling to empower other engineering and analytics teams to build, deploy, and monitor pipelines independently
- Optimize the performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability of platform services
- Ensure high availability, observability, and compliance for platform components
- Implement secure data handling practices and fault-tolerant systems
- Mentor junior engineers and provide code reviews, guidance, and architectural leadership
- Collaborate with analytics and customer-facing teams to align infrastructure with use-case requirements
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade data systems
- Deep expertise in distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka) and cloud architecture
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL (especially Spark SQL)
- Experience developing internal platform tooling or SDKs that enable self-service data and workflow management
- Experience with geospatial data processing, formats, and services (e.g., Apache Sedona)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, observability tools, and platform reliability engineering
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Additional benefits like flexible hours, work travel opportunities, competitive vacation time and parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLApache AirflowDagsterPrefectSparkFlinkKafkaApache SedonaCI/CD
Soft Skills
mentoringcode reviewsarchitectural leadershipcollaboration