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Senior Data Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Nov 09, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Owning the full lifecycle of a streaming data platform, the full-time Senior Data Engineer will manage production operations, build and extend streaming pipelines, and ensure secure data access while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Run the platform in production, overseeing latency/throughput SLOs, monitoring, and recovery processes
  • Build and extend streaming pipelines that ingest CDC events and define governance standards
  • Transform and enrich data using Apache Flink, ensuring reliability and observability of data pipelines
Required qualifications
  • 6+ years of experience building and operating production data systems, particularly with streaming or event-driven pipelines
  • Deep, production experience with Apache Kafka and strong hands-on experience with Apache Flink or similar stream processors
  • AWS-native data engineering skills, including infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for data pipelines
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience in building and consuming REST APIs
  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field

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