
Senior Data Engineer
Centro Benefits Research
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and develop scalable data pipelines and models using Snowflake and dbt
- Design and operate orchestration using Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar
- Define modeling standards, storage patterns, and performance strategies
- Collaborate on backend APIs, services, integration layers, and limited frontend interfaces supporting data-driven features
- Contribute to CI/CD, environment management, and automated pipeline delivery
- Implement quality checks, lineage, SLAs, and observability
- Mentor engineers and drive architectural best practices
- Participate in system design and multi-team architectural planning
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering
- Strong experience with dbt (modeling, testing, deployment, environment strategies)
- Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
- Deep expertise with data warehousing platforms; e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, etc including performance tuning and RBAC
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python or Golang; advanced SQL
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven design, microservices, and data platform architecture
- Experience with metadata management, lineage tools, and observability technologies (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong communication skills for leading architectural discussions across technical and non-technical teams
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata architectureplatform engineeringdbtAirflowDagsterPrefectPythonGolangSQL
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationleadership