22 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$106k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability and stability of production data pipelines and data platform services.
- Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures, delays, data quality issues, distributed processing problems, and warehouse performance issues.
- Lead or support incident response, including triage, mitigation, root cause analysis, and durable remediation.
- Define and improve data SLAs for freshness, latency, and completeness.
- Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability for data systems.
- Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve resilience.
- Contribute to disaster recovery, backup validation, recovery workflows, and resiliency testing.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve pipeline design, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Create and maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and occasional off-hours production support, change windows, and resiliency drills.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience working with production data platforms in AWS environments.
- Experience building data pipelines through production deployment, including handling real-world failures and operational challenges.
- Strong experience with Python and SQL in real data systems.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed data processing systems such as Spark/EMR, Redshift, and streaming systems.
- Proven ability to debug and resolve production issues in data pipelines and data platforms.
- Experience with AWS data services such as EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB, and S3.
- Experience handling production incidents and performing root cause analysis.
- Experience with pipeline backfills and reprocessing, late-arriving or incomplete data, and data-system observability and alerting is preferred.
- Experience with streaming or event-driven systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, and CDC patterns is preferred.
- Experience with disaster recovery, backup validation, resiliency testing, and influencing data pipeline reliability practices is preferred.
- Strong communication skills during incidents with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- 401(k) plan with company matching contributions up to 6%, potential discretionary contributions, financial advisory services, and investment options.
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
- Generous paid time off upon hire, including paid company holidays and floating holidays.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time per calendar year.
- Paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave programs.
- Business Resource Groups supporting inclusion and collaboration.
- Flexible work environment; remote or hybrid employees must provide reliable high-speed wired internet and an appropriate home workspace, and may be required to work in the office if conditions are inadequate.
- Business-casual environment with the option to wear jeans.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringSite Reliability
