Staff Data Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to help scale and strengthen its data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data pipelines and transformations across the data stack
• Tune performance, storage layout, and cost-efficiency of data storage and query engines
• Design and implement new data ingestion patterns while improving platform observability and reliability

Required Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines in production environments
• Strong knowledge of 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