
Senior Data Engineer
Instrumentl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and scale our data platform including pipelines, models, and orchestration frameworks
- Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting data from APIs, databases, and event streams
- Define and implement systems for data ingestion, storage, processing, and transformation
- Build and manage workflow orchestration using tools like Airflow
- Build semantic layer as well as dashboards
- Establish best practices for data modeling, testing, and quality
- Partner with stakeholders to shape data requirements and enable BI and analytics use cases
- Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost from day one and apply software engineering principles (testing, CI/CD, modular design) to data infrastructure
Requirements
- A min of 5+ years of software engineering experience with the last 2-3 years in data engineering, ideally including early-stage or 0→1 environments
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Advanced proficiency in SQL
- Proven experience building ETL/ELT pipelines end-to-end
- Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow
- Deep understanding of the data lifecycle: ingestion → storage → processing → transformation → serving
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Familiarity with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and experience supporting BI tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.)
Benefits
- 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)
- Generous PTO, including parental leave
- 401(k)
- Company laptop and home-office stipend
- Bi-Annual Company retreats for in-person collaboration
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLETLELTdata modelingdata processingdata transformationworkflow orchestrationCI/CDmodular design
Soft Skills
collaborationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingcommunicationbest practices establishment