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Senior Data Engineer

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You will own the OLAP analytics layer from raw event ingestion through API-serving views, including materialized views, query planning, refresh schedules, and cost optimization. You will partner on high-write OLTP tables, improving partitioning, indexing, triggers, autovacuum, and read-path latency. You will define Kafka schema contracts, evolve S3 data lake layouts, develop validation tooling, and design scalable event-sourced data models for analytics such as PnL and position tracking. You will also coordinate schema contracts with upstream and downstream consumers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the OLAP analytics layer from raw event ingestion through API-serving views
  • Design materialized views, refresh cadences, dictionary catalogs, query plans, and cost optimizations
  • Partner on high-write OLTP serving tables, including partitioning, indexing, triggers, autovacuum tuning, and bloat monitoring
  • Define Kafka topic schema contracts and evolve the S3 lake layout
  • Contribute to parity-validation tooling for data correctness during migrations
  • Design event-sourced data models and derivative analytics for PnL, positions, and cohorts
  • Coordinate schema contracts with upstream teams and downstream consumers

Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience on production systems serving users at scale
  • Deep knowledge of OLTP and OLAP split architectures
  • Columnar warehouse expertise, preferably ClickHouse
  • Data lake experience with Parquet, Iceberg or Delta/Hudi, compaction strategies, and S3 layouts
  • Streaming pipeline experience with Kafka, delivery semantics, backpressure, consumer groups, and schema evolution
  • Strong data modeling knowledge, including star and snowflake schemas, SCD, CDC, and idempotent event sourcing
  • PostgreSQL experience at scale, including partitioning, indexing, autovacuum, query planning, and replication
  • SQL fluency at warehouse scale
  • Distributed systems reasoning, including consistency, ordering, replay, and mutable state

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Health coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • New MacBook Pro
  • Display and accessories

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