Senior Data Engineer
Job description
Senior Data Engineer at a globally distributed tech consultancy, designing, implementing and scaling data solutions from batch to streaming for client projects.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Build scalable production-grade data pipelines and real-time data streams
- Write and design scalable, cloud-ready applications
- Lead technical projects through architecture, design and implementation phases
- Engage with clients to understand their business and technical needs, evaluate potential solutions, and define high-level implementation approaches and estimates
- Collaborate with Machine Learning, Data Science, Design, Software Engineering and Business teams to triage data or ETL issues
- Build tests and health checks to maintain code and data quality
- Monitor and analyze data flowing through various systems by adding appropriate visualizations and dashboards
- Contribute to internal engineering initiatives and projects, helping identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate solutions, and drive their implementation
- Provide updates and offer guidance to clients
What we're looking for
- Advanced Python and SQL
- Experience in ETL design, implementation, and maintenance
- Experience in AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure delivering data-centric product experiences
- 5+ years experience in related role
- Experience with in-memory and disk-based databases, relational and non-relational databases, full-text search engines, database design, development, and maintenance (such as MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB)
- Experience with data warehousing and multidimensional data models (columnar data modeling)
- Working knowledge in Data Lake, Data warehouse and massive parallel processing
- Strong problem-solving ability and ability to work through ambiguity and incomplete specifications
- Excellent English
- CV written in English
- Curious: strive to learn and grow into different industries with a modern tech stack
- Autonomous: thrive in a fully remote, globally distributed team
- Collaborative: enjoy working across departments
- Adaptable: operate with a startup mindset and move at startup speed
Nice to have
- Working knowledge in IAM, Federated Authentication, SSO, SAML, Encryption, Security, APIs, Disaster Recovery or Backup
- Strong ability in distributed systems for large-scale data processing
- Experience with Spark and Pandas
- Experience with Open Tables (Hudi, Delta Lake, DataBricks, Iceberg as related to Data Lakehouse)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience with QuickSight and DataViz
- Bonus for Graph Databases like Neo4j
Your team
Data crew
Data team within the consultancy; role collaborates with Machine Learning, Data Science, Design, Software Engineering and Business teams
Benefits
- Every other Friday off (26 extra days off a year)
- Remote-first culture
- Explore and Relocation programs (three months work abroad or full international relo)
- Paid sick days and local holidays
- Business English classes program
- Continuous Learning Support
- Fitness and/or Mental Health Subscriptions
- Access to LokaLabs™, our internal research and development program
- Defined career path
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About Loka, Inc
A globally distributed tech consultancy based in Silicon Valley
Loka is a globally distributed tech consultancy based in Silicon Valley. We work with all kinds of companies, from Silicon Valley startups to major household brands, always guided by our fundamental belief that mission matters. We count more than 200 certified specialists, technical experts and PhDs among our colleagues. We work entirely remotely, test new ideas with our in-house incubator and take every other Friday off.
Mission
We help our clients launch innovations that fix the climate, defeat cancer, improve agricultural efficiencies, teach kids to read and more.
Key facts
- 200+ certified specialists, technical experts and PhDs
- Silicon Valley
- Tech consultancy
- Recognized by AWS as Innovation Partner of the Year at the end of 2024, beating more than 150,000 partners for the title
- Works entirely remotely
- Has an in-house incubator called LokaLabs™
- Takes every other Friday off
Partners & customers
What they value
- Mission matters