Instrumentl

Senior Data Engineer

Instrumentl

full-time

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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