
Data Engineer I
Payscale
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $84,200 - $126,200 per year
About the role
- Help manage the data warehouse by completing well-scoped tasks with guidance.
- Maintain and extend existing data pipelines and ingestion jobs (small changes, fixes).
- Write clean SQL and basic Python scripts following team standards.
- Support operations: monitor jobs, validate loads, and escalate issues with context.
- Implement changes within established modeling/warehouse patterns (star schema, layered data).
- Collaborate with partner teams on straightforward data access and data quality requests.
- Apply basic best practices for data hygiene and query performance.
- Contribute small improvements to internal tooling, runbooks, and documentation.
- Build fluency in team tools and platforms (e.g., Snowflake, CI/orchestration, ingestion tools).
- Participate in an on-call rotation to help monitor and support data pipelines and the data warehouse, escalating issues as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in data warehousing and data engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake data warehouse platform for data storage, retrieval, and analysis.
- Advanced programming skills in Python, SQL
- Experience in building AI/ML retraining pipelines
- Experience in designing and deploying APIs in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) while considering scalability and elasticity requirements.
- Proficiency in machine learning development, including experience with training, fine-tuning, and validating ML models using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar.
- In-depth knowledge of AI/ML model evaluation, optimization, and deployment strategies.
- Strong understanding of vector databases and their application in AI/ML model storage and retrieval.
- Experience in utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), LLaMa (Meta AI), or similar models in real-world applications.
- Proficiency in fine-tuning and deploying LLMs for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as text generation, summarization, sentiment analysis, or language translation.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work
- 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)
- A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans
- Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
- 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
- Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment
- Monthly company All Hands meetings
- Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
- Access to continued learning & development opportunities
- Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth
- A growing network of Employee Resource Groups
- Company sponsored volunteer hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLPythondata warehousingdata engineeringAI/ML retraining pipelinesAPI designcloud environmentsmachine learning developmentmodel evaluationnatural language processing
Soft skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationattention to detailmonitoringdocumentation
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree