Data Engineer
Dwelly
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and maintain a unified data architecture: database schemas, data models, and micro-architecture solutions to ensure scalability and reliability.
- Optimize database performance at all levels: indexing, partitioning, clustering, and tuning configuration parameters.
- Ensure full compliance with GDPR, UK Data Protection Act, and other relevant regulations: data masking, consent management, retention policies, and privacy impact assessments
- Optimize queries, schemas, and indexes where needed
- Set up basic data quality checks
- Support GDPR and UK data protection requirements, including: Data masking, Access control, Retention policies
- Take data notebooks and calculation logic
- Turn them into reliable, production-ready pipelines
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and reproducibility
Requirements
- Write clean, readable, maintainable code
- Have real experience supporting data pipelines in production
- Have worked with a data warehouse (BigQuery or similar)
- Have strong experience in GCP
- Understand orchestration, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Can make practical engineering decisions independently
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English.
- Startup mentality: resilience, adaptability, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Customer-centric mindset: focus on delivering value to end-users or clients.
- Strong problem-solving skills – ability to approach challenges logically and propose practical solutions.
- Nice to have: Experience with AWS, or Azure
- Nice to have: Experience with message queues or distributed systems
- Nice to have: Basic CI/CD for data pipelines
Benefits
- The role is fully remote, providing flexibility and enabling seamless collaboration with our geographically distributed team.
- Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedatabase schemasdata modelsmicro-architecture solutionsdatabase performance optimizationquery optimizationdata quality checksdata pipelinesGCPBigQuery
Soft Skills
clean codestrong communication skillsresilienceadaptabilitycustomer-centric mindsetstrong problem-solving skillsindependent decision makingability to thrive in fast-paced environment