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Staff Data Engineer - TS/SCI Cleared

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11 months ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$192k - $455k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build software extensions that retrieve, parse, transform, and load new data sources into Twenty’s applications.
  • Investigate unfamiliar source systems, design schemas and data models, and develop maintainable integration code.
  • Coordinate approval, deployment, and updates of data integration components across low-side and high-side environments.
  • Operate and maintain production data extensions and apply validated changes within restricted customer environments.
  • Monitor data pipelines and platform services, tracking data quality, throughput, freshness, anomalies, and degradations.
  • Build dashboards and alerts using the LGTM stack to make pipeline health visible to on-site and Arlington teams.
  • Diagnose production data-path issues, lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis, and create runbooks, fixes, and design improvements.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation using PagerDuty, including potential off-hours return to the customer facility.
  • Serve as the engineering liaison for government customer stakeholders and relay operational feedback to product engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with a substantial data infrastructure focus.
  • Strong programming ability in Python or Go and the ability to produce code that remote teammates can review and maintain.
  • Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines using technologies such as Airflow, NiFi, AWS Glue, or equivalent custom development.
  • Strong SQL and schema design skills, including partitioning and indexing decisions based on access patterns.
  • Experience debugging production data systems by reading logs, tracing failures, and identifying root causes under time pressure.
  • Experience in forward-deployed, field engineering, or embedded customer-facing engineering roles with independent judgment.
  • Ability to work full-time on-site at a government facility in Northern Virginia and travel to Arlington, Virginia, typically four days per month.
  • Active TS/SCI security clearance with a full-scope polygraph.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Preferred experience includes data lake and large-scale query technologies, streaming and message queues, observability tooling, restricted or air-gapped environments, military or defense contracting, and Docker-based environments.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability plan options.
  • Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees, including leave for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, foster, and intended parents through surrogacy.
  • Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
  • 401(k) plans with pre-tax and Roth options, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care FSA options.
  • Full-time on-site work at a Northern Virginia government facility with travel to the Arlington office typically four days per month.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatadogDockerGoGrafanaPostgreSQLPrestoPythonRabbitMQSplunkSQLTypeScript

Categories

Data EngineeringForward Deployed
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