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Lead Data Engineer

United StatesRemoteFull-time$113k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, maintain, and improve data pipelines and infrastructure to power the company's data platform, enabling teams to work with data confidently and effectively.

Role type

Lead Data Engineer

Builds

Data platform pipelines and infrastructure for internal company teams

Domain

Technology / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka, dbt Labs, Apache Iceberg, Terraform, Bash, Python, SQL, OLAP/OLTP/Document/Vector databases, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Preferred skills

Data security and access controls for SOX Compliant data, Elastic stack

Technologies

Apache Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink, dbt Labs, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform

Responsibilities

Design, maintain, and improve data pipelines and infrastructure; collaborate with stakeholders to define data flow and co-create data contracts; monitor and refine pipeline performance; provision and manage resources on GCP using Terraform; review code to ensure good practices; process access requests and support compliance with platform policies

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities