Staff Data Engineer
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JellyfishEngineering Management
Remote - US, EST or CSTFull-TimeStaff
Salary$200K - $260K
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonAirflowTerraform
Requirements
- Deep expertise building and scaling data pipelines with a track record of owning complex data infrastructure end-to-end.
- AI-driven developer with experience using AI/LLM tool integrations (e.g., Claude, Copilot).
- Expert Python engineer with experience building reliable, maintainable systems at scale.
- Experience designing and leading large-scale third-party API integration work.
- Fluent in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Production experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Airflow, Dagster).
- Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to build consensus and mentor others.
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to write design docs and lead technical reviews.
- Ability to think in systems while balancing user needs, business impact, and maintainability.
- Located in EST or CST time zone.
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and long-term technical direction, design and implementation of our data pipelines and integrations platform for storage, transformation and export at scale.
- Drive integrations with third-party tools and establish the standards that make future integrations faster and more reliable.
- Own our infrastructure as code strategy using Terraform, and contribute to how we evolve our cloud data infrastructure.
- Architect workflow orchestration systems for near-real-time and batch data processing, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- Lead the design and implementation of data export pipelines that serve diverse customer needs.
- Spearhead development of internal tooling and agentic workflows that meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity across the org.
- Serve as a technical anchor — leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and elevating how the team approaches complex problems.
- Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap prioritization, cross-team dependencies, and org-wide technical strategy.
- Communicate clearly about technical decisions, tradeoffs, and project status to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
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