
Staff Data Engineer
Smarter Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata transformationsdata lakehousedata governancedata modelingpartitioning strategiesschema evolutionperformance tuningPythonSpark
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationbest practices establishmentobservability improvementreliability enhancement