
Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform
Postscript
full-time
Posted on:
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
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Hard skills
data engineeringdata architecturedata lakehousedata ingestion pipelinesproduction grade codeGoJVMApache SparkApache Flinkcloud architecture
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationproject managementcross-team partnerships