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Staff Data Engineer

USA💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the development and operation of a data lake for cyber operations and intelligence data, designing schemas and building resilient ETL pipelines.

Role type

Staff Data Engineer (Cyber Operations)

Builds

Production data lake, ETL pipelines, and query-optimized data products for intelligence analysts.

Domain

Cyber operations, intelligence, and data infrastructure.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

ETL pipeline design and operation, data lake architecture, column-oriented database expertise, schema and index design, system leadership and mentorship, performance tuning.

Preferred skills

Experience building data systems from the ground up, driving technical initiatives end-to-end.

Technologies

Airflow, AWS, AWS Glue, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Neo4J, RabbitMQ, NATS.

Responsibilities

Design schemas, partitions, and indexes for complex datasets; build and refine observable and resilient ETL pipelines; partner with analysts to define query patterns; drive technical initiatives from architecture to production; establish data quality best practices; mentor engineers on data modeling and performance tuning; identify and resolve bottlenecks in storage and compute layers.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with leadership and mentorship responsibilities.

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