Data Engineer

Job#: 3054971
Job Description:
Data Engineer
Location: Glendale, California (Onsite)
Role Overview
We are seeking a mid-level Data Engineer to join a platform engineering team. This role is responsible for the foundational systems and data-ingestion capabilities supporting a large-scale enterprise data platform. The position involves designing, building, and supporting data pipelines that connect a wide variety of upstream sources to cloud-based data platforms. This role is suited for an engineer with Python and cloud data experience who is comfortable working across ingestion, transformation, platform maintenance, and production support.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain reliable data-ingestion pipelines.
• Move data from varied upstream systems into AWS- and Snowflake-based environments.
• Develop and maintain Python-based data processing and integration workflows.
• Build, schedule, and monitor data pipelines using Apache Airflow.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data-quality issues, and production platform problems.
• Support the ongoing maintenance and reliability of the broader data platform.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, platform engineers, and infrastructure or SRE partners.
• Help develop reusable ingestion patterns for commonly used source technologies.
• Contribute to event-driven and streaming ingestion initiatives when applicable.
• Document pipeline configurations, dependencies, operational processes, and support procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Approximately 3-5 years of professional data engineering or closely related experience.
• Strong programming experience with Python.
• Hands-on experience building or supporting data pipelines in AWS.
• Practical experience working with Snowflake.
• Experience developing and orchestrating workflows using Apache Airflow.
• Demonstrated understanding of data-ingestion, transformation, and integration concepts.
• Experience moving data between source systems and cloud-based data platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot and support production data workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work onsite approximately two days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming and event-driven technologies.
• Experience designing or supporting event-based data-ingestion architectures.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or other relational data sources.
• Experience building configurable, reusable, or self-service ingestion capabilities.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale data-platform environments.
• Familiarity with site reliability, cloud infrastructure, or platform-support practices.
• Experience partnering with software engineering teams that need to make application data available for reporting, analytics, dashboards, or downstream use.

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