Senior Data Engineer

Kiddom

full-time

Posted on: 9/23/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Senior

AWSCassandraCloudGoMySQLNeo4jPythonSQL

About the role

Design, implement, and maintain the organization’s data infrastructure, ensuring it meets business requirements and technical standards.
Deploy data pipelines to AWS infrastructure such as EKS, ECS, Lambdas and AWS Glue.
Develop and deploy data pipelines to clean and transform data to support other engineering teams, analytics and AI applications.
Extract and deploy reusable features to Feature stores such as Feast or equivalent.
Evaluate and select appropriate database technologies, tools, and platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Monitor data systems and troubleshoot issues related to data quality, performance, and integrity.
Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics teams to understand and cater to their data needs.
Define and document data workflows, pipelines, and transformation processes for clear understanding and knowledge sharing.
Ensure student data privacy and security, and adhere to PII compliance best practices.

3+ years of experience as a data engineer, and 8+ years of software engineering experience (including data engineering)
Proven experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role with strong data modeling, architecture, and design skills.
Strong understanding of data engineering principles including infrastructure deployment, governance and security.
Experience with MySQL, Snowflake, Cassandra and familiarity with Graph databases (Neptune or Neo4J)
Proficiency in SQL, Python, (Golang)
Proficient with AWS offerings such as AWS Glue, EKS, ECS and Lambda
Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Strong understanding of PII compliance and best practices in data handling and storage
Strong problem-solving skills, with a knack for optimizing performance and ensuring data integrity and accuracy.