
Senior Data Engineer
MasterClass
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $167,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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