Senior Data Engineer

Teamworks

Senior Data Engineer leading platform strategy and data pipeline design for Teamworks' cutting-edge sports tech solutions. Building a lakehouse to centralize data across products.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSPythonSparkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the design, implementation, and operation of production data pipelines that consolidate performance data and product telemetry into our lakehouse
Lead architecture and infrastructure decisions for our lakehouse platform on AWS, including IaC in Terraform, schema design, and multi-tenant isolation patterns
Drive data modeling for complex entities like time-series performance data, hierarchical org structures, and multi-source athlete profiles
Build and document the reusable patterns, runbooks, and Terraform modules that let other product teams self-serve new datasets and integrations
Raise the bar on platform reliability through observability, on-call rotation ownership, and post-incident learning that reduces toil and cost over time
Partner with product and engineering teams to evaluate and evolve the platform's technology stack as the business scales into new environments
Participate in our on-call rotation

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of data engineering or related experience, with strong Python proficiency for pipelines, transformations, and platform tooling
Hands-on experience designing and operating lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi) and modern processing engines (Spark, Databricks, Trino, or Snowflake)
Deep AWS experience (S3, IAM, Glue, EMR/Lambda, networking) with production-grade Infrastructure as Code in Terraform
Strong data modeling and schema design skills, with experience modeling complex entities like time-series, hierarchical, or multi-source data, and designing integration patterns across products or systems (event-driven, API, batch) with attention to reliability and multi-tenant isolation
Strong communicator who builds consensus across teams, writes RFCs and design specs, and values documentation as part of the craft.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythondata engineeringlakehouse architecturedata modelingschema designInfrastructure as CodeTerraformSparkDatabricksSnowflake

Soft Skills

strong communicatorconsensus buildingdocumentationpost-incident learningon-call rotation ownership