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Staff Engineer

MN - Minneapolis🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Staff Engineer acting as an individual contributor to design and build resilient data engineering solutions, translating customer needs into technical strategies and systems.

Role type

Staff Data Engineer (Individual Contributor)

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, resilient enterprise systems, and platform technology strategies.

Domain

Data Engineering / Big Data / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Big Data technologies (Apache Spark, PySpark, Hadoop), Data pipeline development (Batch/Streaming), Scripting (Python, Shell), DevOps (CI/CD), JVM languages (Java, Scala), Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Infrastructure-as-Code (Chef, Terraform), Data streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), Modern data stack (dbt, Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), ETL, SQL, Data warehousing (STAR, 3NF), BI development, Testing (UAT, integration).

Preferred skills

N/A

Technologies

Apache Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Python, Shell, GitHub, GitLab, Bamboo, Java, Scala, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Chef, Terraform, Apache Kafka, Kinesis, dbt, Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Informatica Power Center

Responsibilities

Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem; Lead the resolution of critical incidents and proactively address product issues; Coordinate design and integration of entire systems including subsystems; Broker solution design and implementation across product teams; Lead the evaluation process for software solutions and advise on external software strengths/weaknesses; Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices; Serve as technical leader and subject matter expert on data engineering.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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