Senior Data Engineer
$166,000–$220,000 year
On-siteCosta Mesa, California, United States
Costa Mesa, California, United StatesOn-sitePart Time$166,000–$220,000 yearSenior LevelDefense TechnologyLarge
Part TimeSenior LevelLargeDefense Technology
Job Summary
Lead the design and roadmap for the data platform while partnering with operations, product, and engineering to build supporting infrastructure. Own ingest and egress frameworks that stitch data sources into valuable products driving business outcomes. Operate in a player-coach capacity, leading the team while hands-on debugging complex data transformation pipelines and models. Utilize SQLMesh, Apache Iceberg, Flyte, and Palantir Foundry to manage large-scale analytics and self-service capabilities across the organization.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role building products, ideally in a fast-paced environment
- Good foundations in Python or another language
- Experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL and dbt
- Experience with Enterprise Data Systems like Palantir Foundry
- Experience with or interest in learning how to develop data services and data products
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystem, containerization, and associated tooling
- Knowledge of data & visualization tools, such as Tableau
- Understand the importance of engineering with security's best practices in mind
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Desired Qualifications
- You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in defense
- You're energized by business impact & a self-starter: you love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects
- Drive to take ownership of and debug complex data transformation pipelines and data models
- You are empathetic: you are eager to see the world from your users' perspective
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