Senior Data Engineer
Summary
Build cloud-native data platforms and MLOps workflows, designing ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, and feature stores for AI/ML and analytics.
This is a remote position.
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable, cloud-native data platforms and enable end-to-end MLOps workflows. You will design ETL/ELT pipelines, manage data lakes/warehouses/feature stores, and ensure high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient pipelines for AI/ML and analytics. This role blends Data Engineering + MLOps to deliver production-ready, automated, and reliable ML workflows.
Responsibilities
- Data Pipelines: Design & optimize batch/streaming ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
- Platforms: Build/manage data lakes, warehouses, feature stores for ML/BI workloads.
- MLOps: Enable model training, deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, versioning using SageMaker (AWS), Vertex AI (GCP), Azure ML.
- Streaming: Implement real-time pipelines with Kafka, Spark Streaming, AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hubs.
- Automation: Leverage Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Kubernetes for infra-as-code & scaling.
- Quality & Governance: Ensure data lineage, metadata, observability, security, compliance, cost efficiency.
- Collaboration: Work with Data Scientists & ML Engineers to productionize ML models across cloud environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands on experience in Data Engineering, Big Data, or Cloud Data Platform roles, working on large scale production systems.
- Strong command of Python and SQL, using them to build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Deep working knowledge of distributed data systems (e.g., Spark, Hive, Presto, Dask) for batch and real-time processing.
- Proven track record with cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP, or Azure — e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, EMR, Databricks — for data storage and analytics.
- Experience designing and maintaining event driven and streaming architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink).
- Solid background in data modeling (star schema, OLAP cubes, graph databases) to support BI and analytics.
- Practical exposure to data security, encryption, and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
Preferred Skills
- Direct experience enabling MLOps workflows building feature stores, managing versioned datasets, or integrating pipelines with ML platforms (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML).
- Familiarity with real-time analytics systems such as Clickhouse or Apache Pinot.
- Exposure to data observability tools (e.g., Monte Carlo, Databand) to monitor quality, lineage, and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable, resilient, and secure data systems that support mission critical applications.
- Interest and experience in supporting AI/ML innovation with robust data infrastructure.
- Strong mindset for automation, scalability, DevOps/MLOps practices, and engineering excellence.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation as per industry standards
- Opportunity to work on enterprise‑scale AI/ML and analytics platforms
- High‑impact role driving cloud‑native and MLOps transformation
- Collaborative, engineering‑driven work culture
- Strong growth path into Lead Data Engineer, ML Platform Engineer, or MLOps Architect roles