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Federal Senior Data Engineer
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Role overview Own and expand the data platform behind business-critical pipelines, reporting, and product analytics. The role covers ingestion, warehouse and orchestration infrastructure, and business intelligence across multiple regions, with a particular focus on workloads operating in US government cloud environments.
Responsibilities - Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines, including jobs that feed a warehouse and reporting tools. - Operate core data infrastructure across regions, including the warehouse, workflow orchestration, and BI platform. - Help evaluate warehouse and lakehouse direction as platform needs evolve. - Define data contracts between producer and consumer teams, choosing suitable approaches for batch, streaming, change data capture, and reprocessing. - Design and refine warehouse schemas and data models, and add observability to pipelines and platform components. - Coordinate across dependent teams and take responsibility for delivery from design through operation.
Requirements - Seven or more years in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering. - Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning production data infrastructure end to end. - Deep understanding of distributed data systems, architecture trade-offs, data contracts, and multi-region or multi-tenant operation. - Strong SQL and data modeling skills, plus Python experience. - Experience with cloud data platforms and distributed processing, such as AWS Glue, Spark, Databricks, or Snowflake. - Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau and workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster. - US citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS security clearance; experience working in government cloud environments is also required.
Benefits and work setup Remote and hybrid arrangements are available depending on role and location. Listed benefits include stock options, health coverage, flexible vacation, and parental leave. The stated base salary range is $199,750–$235,000 per year, with the final amount depending on location, qualifications, experience, and skills.