Staff Data Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Jan 09, 2026
This job expires in: 28 days

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Data Engineer (PySpark).

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and evolve scalable, distributed data infrastructure across cloud platforms
  • Build and maintain real-time and batch data processing pipelines supporting analytics and AI/ML workloads
  • Mentor and support data engineers, establishing best practices and code quality standards
Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years of software development and data engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production-grade data infrastructure
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Deep expertise scaling Spark in production (Databricks, EMR, etc)
  • Strong understanding of distributed computing and modern data modeling for scalable systems
  • Hands-on experience with both relational (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) databases

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