Alchemy

Senior Data Engineer

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29 days ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$205k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build batch and streaming pipelines connecting operational databases, product events, billing systems, and external sources.
  • Implement recoverable ingestion using change-data capture, schema-change handling, idempotent processing, and safe backfills.
  • Operate and improve Snowflake, including access controls, workload management, query performance, and compute and storage costs.
  • Improve workflow orchestration and deployment processes for safely testing, shipping, and debugging pipelines.
  • Build checks for stale, missing, duplicated, or inconsistent records before downstream consumption.
  • Collaborate with analytics partners on data models, source definitions, documentation, dataset ownership, and upstream dependencies.
  • Create reusable tools and datasets that reduce recurring manual work and enable self-service data access.
  • Participate in production support and incident response, restore data flow, reconcile affected datasets, and fix recurring failure causes.

Requirements

  • Independently build and operate production data pipelines and related infrastructure.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills, including testing, debugging, and maintainable software design.
  • Experience with Snowflake or a comparable warehouse, including performance tuning and access management.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow and dbt, or equivalent systems.
  • Understanding of data modeling, incremental processing, schema evolution, and data-quality testing.
  • Ability to trace data discrepancies from downstream reports to their sources, explain causes, and implement fixes.
  • Ability to translate recurring stakeholder requests into reusable datasets or tooling and communicate trade-offs clearly.
  • Helpful experience includes Kafka, database replication, change-data-capture systems, Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino, infrastructure as code, data observability, lineage, disaster recovery, usage metering, billing and revenue data, or semantic layers for self-service analytics.
  • Blockchain experience is not required.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance.
  • Gym reimbursement.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Flexible time off.
  • In-office group meals.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Company-sponsored conferences and events.
  • Books and audiobook subscription with Bookster.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkdbtPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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