Senior Staff Data Engineer

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full-time

Posted on: 8/25/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $105,000 - $140,000 per year

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About the role

Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance
Influence the product and technical roadmap by providing data-driven insights and articulating the trade-offs between technical options and business goals
Mentor other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance, raising the bar for the entire team
Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software
Work closely with a global team, including engineers and product managers to build a stable, high-performance platform
Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime
Translate requirements, estimate effort, and address or escalate blockers as needed
Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing
Own end-to-end projects, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers)
Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors
Make informed trade-off decisions between immediate delivery and long-term strategic goals

10+ years of experience working in the Data Engineering space, and with building and maintaining big data pipelines
5+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product)
Proficient in Spark
Experience with strongly-typed languages (Java / Scala preferred)
Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services
Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase
Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability
Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management