Smarter Technologies

Staff Data Engineer

Smarter Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Develop and maintain data pipelines and transformations across the stack. Starting from ingesting transactional data into the data lakehouse to refining data up the medallion data architecture.
  • Tune performance, storage layout, and cost-efficiency across our data storage and query engines.
  • Help design and implement new data ingestion patterns and improve platform observability and reliability.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver well-structured, trustworthy data for diverse use cases.
  • Help establish and evolve best practices for our data infrastructure, from pipeline design to OpenTofu-managed resource provisioning.
  • Help design and implement a data governance strategy to secure our data lakehouse.

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines in production environments
  • Strong knowledge of the data lakehouse ecosystem, with an emphasis on AWS data services - particularly Glue, S3, Athena/Trino/PrestoDB, and Aurora
  • Proficiency in Python, Spark and Athena/Trino/PrestoDB for data transformation and orchestration
  • Experience managing infrastructure with OpenTofu/Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, partitioning strategies, schema evolution, and performance tuning
  • Comfortable working with cloud-native data pipelines and batch processing (streaming experience is a plus but not required)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata transformationsdata lakehousedata governancedata modelingpartitioning strategiesschema evolutionperformance tuningPythonSpark
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationbest practices establishmentobservability improvementreliability enhancement