Senior Data Engineer
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Ground NewsNews Media Tech
Ground is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, but this role is remote.Full-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonSQLGCPKubernetesBigQuerydbt
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms and analytical models.
- Deep expertise in SQL and Python.
- Broad experience with dimensional modelling: grain, table types, conformed dimensions, and load patterns.
- Hands-on experience with modern data tooling: BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, and ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Google Datastream.
- Experience with data stores and event-driven systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues/streams (Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub).
- SRE-oriented experience: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Experience shipping data and metrics safely with strong validation habits and attention to compute costs.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, conformed data models and analytical layers for experimentation and company KPIs.
- Own end-to-end data connectors from replicated backend tables to custom and third-party sources.
- Manage infrastructure as code and deployment workflows using AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and OpenTofu.
- Monitor data pipeline freshness and respond to failures with urgency.
- Act as a senior voice in data architecture decisions and schema design.
- Partner with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders to enable self-service data access.
- Champion engineering quality through testing, code reviews, and observability.
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