Federal Senior Data Engineer
Horizon3 AI27 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$200k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain business-critical data ingestion pipelines, including AWS Glue and Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
- Build and operate the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform across multiple regions.
- Evaluate and shape warehouse strategy, including lakehouse platforms such as Databricks.
- Define and evolve batch or event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams, including batch-versus-streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant or multi-region trade-offs.
- Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models.
- Build observability into pipelines and platform components.
- Drive work across producer and consumer teams, communicate clearly, and own outcomes end to end.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering skills, including clean, correct, maintainable code and solid data-structure and problem-solving fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, data architecture, pipeline and platform design, batch and streaming systems, CDC, event contracts, reprocessing, multi-tenant systems, multi-region systems, and observability.
- Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills, including warehouse schema design.
- Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end.
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms and distributed data processing such as AWS Glue, Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark-based pipelines.
- Experience with Tableau or a comparable BI platform.
- Experience with SQL and Python.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tooling such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or similar.
- Experience and ability to work within US Government enclaves from FedRAMP through TS cloud environments.
- US citizenship and ability to gain and maintain a TS security clearance.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership across dependent teams.
Benefits
- Remote and hybrid work models are available depending on role and location, including a Chicago office where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance are provided for employees and their families.
- Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
- Full-time roles are eligible for equity in the form of stock options.
- Growth opportunities and a collaborative, inclusive work environment are offered.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Horizon3 AI
Horizon3 AI builds NodeZero, a proactive security platform that autonomously performs penetration testing and validates attack paths across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. The company sells its software by subscription to security and IT teams at enterprises and government agencies, helping prioritize and verify fixes. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves customers across regulated industries and the public sector.