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Data Engineer

Builds and maintains data pipelines, warehouses, and infrastructure that enable analytics and ML.

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Data EngineerSenior Data EngineerStaff Data Warehouse Engineer
23open jobs
15companies hiring
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for data transformation and analysis

95%

Designing and building scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows

95%

Designing and managing database architecture and data warehouse schemas

92%

Building and maintaining data integrations across internal and external systems

90%

Developing in Python or similar programming languages for data processing and tooling

90%

Implementing data quality monitoring, validation, and observability frameworks

88%

Creating dashboards and self-serve analytics platforms for business stakeholders

85%

Managing data governance, security, compliance, and documentation standards

85%

Optimizing data warehouse performance, query efficiency, and infrastructure costs

82%

Architecting distributed data systems and infrastructure for handling large-scale datasets

80%
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Building machine learning pipelines and integrating ML models into data infrastructure

70%

Implementing change data capture and real-time streaming data pipelines

68%

Implementing data enrichment strategies and master data management processes

62%

Designing and managing vector databases and multimodal data storage for AI applications

55%

Building safety and abuse detection data systems for AI model monitoring

50%
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Collaborating cross-functionally with product, finance, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions

88%

Communicating technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

85%

Gathering stakeholder requirements and synthesizing high-impact data needs

80%

Taking ownership of end-to-end projects and wearing multiple hats in early-stage environments

78%

Mentoring team members and establishing data engineering best practices and standards

72%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonvery high
SQLvery high
Gomoderate
Javalow
Rlow
Rustlow
Scalalow
$ tech --framework
Apache Airflowhigh
Apache Sparkmoderate
Dagstermoderate
Kafkamoderate
PySparkmoderate
Flinklow
Hadooplow
Hivelow
Prefectlow
Reactlow
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Snowflakevery high
AWShigh
BigQueryhigh
GCPhigh
S3high
Salesforcehigh
Azuremoderate
Databricksmoderate
Netsuitemoderate
Postgresmoderate
Redshiftmoderate
Stripemoderate
Anaplanlow
ClickHouselow
Cloudflarelow
dbt Cloudlow
HDFSlow
Kuberneteslow
LanceDBlow
Marketolow
Palantir Foundrylow
Zendesklow
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dbthigh
Gitmoderate
Grafanamoderate
Metabasemoderate
Terraformmoderate
Adaptivelow
AWS Kinesislow
Claylow
Dockerlow
Dun & Bradstreetlow
GitHub Actionslow
OpenTelemetrylow
PowerBIlow
Tableaulow
ZoomInfolow
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Apache Icebergmoderate
Parquetmoderate
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Open Jobs

23 open Data Engineer jobs across 15 companies.

Nscale2d
Data Engineer - Seattle, WA
US·Data & Analytics
OpenAI3d
Data Engineer, Finance
San Francisco·Data & Analytics
Nscale4d
Data Engineer
US·Data & Analytics
Nscale4d
Data Engineer
US·Data & Analytics
Figma4d
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Data & Analytics
Cognition1w
Data Engineer - Finance
San Francisco Bay Area·Data & Analytics
Figma1w
Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Data & Analytics
Nscale1w
Data Engineer (Forward Deployed)
London·Data & Analytics
CoreWeave1w
Senior Software Engineer - Data Lake & BI
Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA·Data & Analytics
Anthropic2w
Business Systems Analyst, Data Enrichment
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·Data & Analytics
Nebius2w
Data Engineer
Germany; Israel; Netherlands; Prague, Czech Republic; Remote - Europe; United Kingdom·Data & Analytics
Legora2w
Senior Data Engineer
Stockholm HQ·Data & Analytics
Crusoe2w
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA - US·Data & Analytics
Anthropic3w
Data Engineer, Safeguards
London, UK·Data & Analytics
Baseten3w
Data Engineer
San Francisco·Data & Analytics
Together AI1mo
Staff Data Warehouse Engineer
San Francisco·Data & Analytics
Synthesia1mo
Senior Data Engineer
London·Data & Analytics
Vanta1mo
Staff Data Engineer
Remote U.S.·Data & Analytics
Notion3mo
Data Engineer, Finance
San Francisco, California·Data & Analytics
Cognition4mo
Data Engineer - GTM & Product
San Francisco Bay Area·Data & Analytics