Senior/Staff Data Engineer
Horizon3 AI· Engineering
Remote$199k - $270kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior or Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and own Horizon3’s data platform underpinning critical pipelines for provisioning, product analytics, warehouse feeding, and BI across regions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain business-critical data pipelines, including data ingestion and AWS Glue/Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
- Build and operate core data infrastructure: the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform, deployed across multiple regions.
- Help evaluate and shape our warehouse strategy, including lakehouse platforms such as Databricks.
- Define and evolve batch or event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams, reasoning through batch vs. streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant/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.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering craft: clean, correct, maintainable code with solid data-structure and problem-solving fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and data architecture: pipeline and platform design, batch vs. streaming, CDC, event contracts, multi-tenant and multi-region trade-offs, reprocessing, and observability.
- Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills, including designing schemas for a warehouse your team owns.
- Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end.
- Strong collaboration and ownership across dependent teams.
- 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.
Skills
Required:Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsSQL & Data Modeling
Benefits
- Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
- Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.
- Innovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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