Postscript

Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform

Postscript

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $235,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own and evolve our data platform, tooling, and architecture to meet growing analytical and product needs.
  • Help lead the delivery of a v2 data architecture at Postscript via a data lakehouse
  • Build stream and batch data ingestion pipelines to process source data
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and BI to support net new analytics use cases and migrations
  • Support existing data engineering systems
  • Mentor and coach other data engineers and backend software engineers in the data practice

Requirements

  • 8+ years as a Data Engineer working on the modern data stack
  • 2+ years operating as a Staff or Lead engineer
  • 5+ years of experience writing production grade code (preferably in Go)
  • You have familiarity with the JVM and at least one JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin)
  • Passionate about data engineering and have strong software engineering skills
  • You’ve worked in modern datalakes with open table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake
  • You’ve built and operated stream processing pipelines with Apache Spark and/or Flink
  • You have strong cloud architecture skills in the AWS ecosystem
  • You’ve worked with a broad array of database technologies and understand how to select the right technology for the job (Postgres/OLAP/NoSQL/etc.)
  • You’re seasoned in event-driven distributed systems
  • You have a track record of success at remote mid/late-stage startups
  • You’re able to build strong cross-team partnerships and have strong communication + project management skills
  • Proven upward trajectory or history of promotions and success
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup experience specifically at successful growth companies (>200 employees, successful exits/fundraises with credible VCs, etc)
Benefits
  • Salary range of USD $200-235k base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
  • High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
  • Work from home (or wherever)
  • Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, vision insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
data engineeringdata architecturedata lakehousedata ingestion pipelinesproduction grade codeGoJVMApache SparkApache Flinkcloud architecture
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationproject managementcross-team partnerships