Sr. Data Engineer

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USA (Remote) / $150000 - $180000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$150000 - $180000

Location

LOCATION

USA (Remote)

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Remote (Must be based in EST/CST)

Pay: $150K-$180K + Equity

Overview:

An emerging AI-driven technology company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and operate the data infrastructure that powers their core products. This organization builds advanced systems enabling real‑time decisioning, predictive analytics, and large‑scale data processing for enterprise clients. This role blends backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platform development building highly scalable systems end to end.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and operate production data services and APIs in a cloud environment using containerized applications
  • Implement and scale vector search capabilities supporting high‑volume similarity retrieval across 50M+ records
  • Build and optimize data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Python, SQL, and Databricks
  • Architect cost‑effective cloud infrastructure supporting real‑time and batch workloads
  • Collaborate cross‑functionally with data science and product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions
  • Own monitoring, observability, and service reliability for key data‑driven systems
  • Improve internal tooling, infrastructure components, and engineering best practices

Must-Have Qualifications:

  • 5+ years in data engineering, backend engineering, or platform infrastructure roles
  • Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, SQS/SNS)
  • Proficiency deploying and troubleshooting containerized applications on Kubernetes
  • Production-grade Python and SQL experience
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks (Delta Lake, Jobs, Workflows)
  • Experience working with vector databases or vector search technologies (Milvus, Databricks Vector Index)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)

CONTACT

Bekim Doçaj

Principal Recruitment Consultant

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