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Data Engineer

Reston, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and store data from high-volume sources for real-time analysis and AI workflows.

Role type

Senior Data Engineer (Cloud & AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Production-grade data pipelines, data stores, and governance systems for enterprise intelligence and AI workflows.

Domain

Cloud computing, Data Engineering, Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SQL, Python, Rust, Java, Kafka, Flink, Beam, Spark, Airflow, Data modeling, Cloud architecture

Preferred skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Graph databases, Snowflake, Databricks, Vector databases, RAG pipelines

Technologies

Kafka, Flink, Beam, Spark, Airflow, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, PostgreSQL, Firestore, MongoDB, Neo4j, Snowflake, Databricks, GCS, Dataproc

Responsibilities

Architect and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines for real-time analysis; Create single source of truth for enterprise intelligence; Optimize data foundations for high-performance AI workflows; Establish automated data security, quality assurance, and governance processes; Design systems for high fault tolerance and rapid disaster recovery; Model for efficient queries, resource usage, workload scheduling, and cost.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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