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Senior Data Engineer

MasterClass

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $167,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, build, and operate robust, fault-tolerant, and observable data pipelines using Airflow and modern ELT best practices
  • Architect, enhance and improve data ingestion, AWS data infrastructure, including Redshift, S3 and monitoring
  • Partner with Analytics, Product, Finance, Marketing, and Content teams to design canonical, analytics-ready datasets that power key metrics such as growth, engagement, retention, and revenue
  • Define, implement, and enforce SLAs, data quality checks, observability, and alerting for production data systems. Take shared ownership of data platform reliability, participating in on-call rotations and driving root-cause fixes for incidents
  • Contribute to design reviews, raising engineering quality, and sharing best practices
  • Evaluate and introduce data tooling that improves reliability, developer productivity, and analytics velocity
  • Collaborate deeply with cross functional teams to align event design, source systems, and data contracts

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with ownership of production data platforms at scale
  • Deep expertise designing and operating Airflow, AWS-based data platforms, including Redshift, S3, IAM, and related services in complex production environments
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with strong data modeling and systems design skills
  • Strong understanding of distributed data processing, modern ELT architectures, analytics workflows and BI use cases, and experience partnering closely with Analytics and business stakeholders.
  • AI tools knowledge that includes an understanding of prompt engineering and familiarity with modern AI technology stacks
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions, influence architecture, and drive initiatives across teams
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • flexible PTO
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringAirflowAWSRedshiftS3SQLPythondata modelingdistributed data processingELT architectures
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationinfluenceproblem-solving