Senior Data Engineer
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CariFintech Blockchain
Remote — United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive base salary, bonus, and equity.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5–7+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLSnowflakeApache KafkaData engineeringComplianceDatabricks
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of professional data engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and building data pipelines.
- Production experience ingesting data from transactional databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Production experience with Kafka, AWS MSK, or comparable streaming technologies.
- Experience establishing data governance practices, including access control, audit logging, and data lineage.
- Working knowledge of AWS-native data tooling, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Strong understanding of transactional systems of record and downstream analytical platforms.
- Experience defining data quality, reconciliation, and reliability standards for production pipelines.
- Strong written communication skills, including experience producing RFCs and technical design documents.
- Ability to independently own a technical domain in an early-stage environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and own ingestion pipelines from PostgreSQL and Kafka/AWS MSK into Cari’s analytical platform.
- Define clear boundaries around which data is replicated, transformed, or derived.
- Provide technical input into the evaluation of AWS-native tooling, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Assess platform tradeoffs involving governance, compliance, auditability, data residency, and operational complexity.
- Establish data governance practices, including access controls, audit logging, data lineage, and traceability.
- Define data quality, validation, and reconciliation processes for compliance reporting and dashboards.
- Establish production standards for pipeline monitoring, alerting, observability, and failure recovery.
- Write RFCs, architecture proposals, and design documentation for stakeholders.
- Mentor less-experienced data engineers as the data function grows.
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