Data Engineer

Wheelhouse

Senior Data Engineer optimizing robust daily data ingestion pipelines for a revenue management platform. Ensuring data reliability and performance for 14 million listings' calendar data.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $156,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsETLPostgresRubyRuby on RailsTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, optimize, and supervise the daily ingestion pipelines that process calendar data for 14+ million listings.
Tune and scale our AWS RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora databases to handle extreme high-throughput read/write operations and multi-TB storage.
Optimize background job orchestration to ensure timely and efficient data processing.
Design and build robust ETL processes to integrate new, complex data sources into our ecosystem.
Collaborate with application engineers to make diverse versions and aggregations of our data easily accessible to the core application.
Apply DevOps best practices to maintain and improve our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling to catch data bottlenecks before they impact the business.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of Data Engineering or Backend Engineering experience, specifically dealing with massive, high-velocity datasets
Deep database expertise: Advanced knowledge of relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora
Strong programming skills: Proficiency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Job Orchestration: Experience with background processing frameworks at scale (Resque, Sidekiq, Celery, or similar)
DevOps & Cloud: Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, infrastructure provisioning (Terraform/CloudFormation), and CI/CD pipelines
Data Modeling: Strong ability to design data models that balance fast ingestion with efficient application querying.
Problem Solver: A track record of identifying performance bottlenecks in complex distributed systems and implementing elegant solutions.
Remote DNA: Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, communicate asynchronously, and manage your own "healthy hustle."

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary, cash bonus potential and equity
Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for each US employee
Fidelity 401k available for each US employee
Unlimited PTO
And…more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data EngineeringBackend EngineeringPostgreSQLAWS AuroraRubyRuby on RailsETL processesJob OrchestrationData ModelingCI/CD

Soft Skills

Problem SolverAutonomous workAsynchronous communicationTime management