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$205,000–$220,000/yr
US

  • Partner with Sales and Field Engineering to design and architect complex, enterprise-grade solutions tailored to customer needs.
  • Lead the implementation of custom solutions within customer environments across multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
  • Optimize solutions for performance, scalability, and reliability in production environments.

Python Data Pipelines Kubernetes APIs AI/ML

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$124,250–$166,750/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Designing data workflows, pipelines, and pathways to support ETL/ELT, while ensuring data-quality and exchange of sensitive information across AWS cloud and on-prem environments.
  • Implementing systems engineering principles to ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of data layer systems, including backup and recovery strategies
  • Architecting, deploying, and operating data streaming technologies (Kafka, Redpanda, Kinesis, etc ) on Kubernetes with an emphasis on declarative definitions to reduce complexity in day-2 operations

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so their customers can focus on the most important challenges. Their team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

$118,000–$148,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines that power analytics, experimentation, and machine learning
  • Partner cross-functionally with analytics, product, engineering and operations to deliver high-quality data solutions that drive measurable business impact
  • Champion data quality, reliability, and observability by implementing best practices in testing, monitoring, lineage, and incident response

Gopuff is reimagining how people purchase everyday essentials, from snacks to household goods to alcohol, all delivered in minutes. They are assembling a team of thinkers, dreamers and risk-takers who know the value of peace of mind in an unpredictable world.

Europe Asia

  • Create innovative solutions for handling peta-bytes of data with billions of rows & joins.
  • Create real time and offline features generation pipelines to managing our data infrastructure to be reliable and fast!
  • Develop and productionize data pipelines for our ML models in both bare-metal and the cloud environment.

Kayzen is a mobile demand-side platform (DSP) dedicated to democratizing programmatic advertising. They enable leading apps, agencies, media buyers, and brands to run programmatic customer acquisition, retargeting, and brand performance campaigns through their self-serve and managed service options.

US

  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems that handle heavy CPU, disk, and network workloads.
  • Analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks across compute, storage, and network layers.
  • Build instrumentation, metrics, and telemetry to measure system performance.

RapidFort is a Series A cybersecurity company backed by $42M from leading investors, building the next generation of container and software supply-chain security. Our platform helps enterprises and U.S. government agencies eliminate vulnerabilities in container images, secure Kubernetes environments, and protect cloud-native infrastructure at runtime.

$135,500–$200,000/yr
US

  • Architect, design, implement, and operate end-to-end data engineering solutions using Agile methodology.
  • Develop and manage robust data integrations with external vendors and organizations (including complex API integrations).
  • Collaborate closely with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, DBAs, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver high-impact data solutions.

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice, whose mission is helping people make smart financial decisions, reaching over an estimated 59 million people each month. A successful $110 million Series D funding round in 2021 valued the company at over $1 billion.

$150,000–$190,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale high-throughput streaming pipelines.
  • Model and deliver high-quality, production-grade real estate datasets.
  • Strengthen data quality and observability.

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, they are a Series C company on track to hit $100M in annual recurring revenue in the next six months. They are a global team ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row.

$75–$90/hr
US

  • Embed with strategic enterprise customers to rapidly diagnose critical business challenges, map data landscapes, and co-design AI solutions on-site.
  • Lead end-to-end solution design and delivery of agentic AI workflows, RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, and real-time decision-making applications.
  • Serve as the primary technical owner across the full project lifecycle: scoping, architecture, build, deployment, and post-launch optimization.

Cayuse is an industry leading DataCenter. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer where all employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities.

Europe

  • Organize and structure data systems at both macro and micro levels, designing and implementing data architectures that support business goalsOptimize data pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Airflow to process large-scale, complex datasets
  • Demonstrate ability to delivery of of  data products  useful for machine learning and AI research and development (data models, metadata and semantics)

Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software.

Europe Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the design and delivery of complex data engineering projects.
  • Design and develop core components of our data platform.
  • Mentor engineers on the team, elevating their skills and promoting best practices in data engineering.

MoonPay is a unified payments platform for digital currency, making it easy for anyone to buy, sell, swap, and pay in digital currencies. They are trusted by over 30 million customers and over 500 ecosystem partners, driving mainstream crypto adoption worldwide.

Latin America

  • Strengthen the real estate MLS data platform squad.
  • Build robust data pipelines and backend services.
  • Evaluate and monitor infrastructure to improve systems over time.

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, we're a Series C company on track to hit $100M in annual recurring revenue in the next six months. Founded in 2016, Luxury Presence has grown to a global team and has raised $89 million to date.

$120,000–$150,000/yr
US

  • Maintain and continuously improve your technical expertise to be an Airflow expert.
  • Work with customers to educate and guide them regarding Airflow best practices.
  • Collaborate with team members to design, prototype, and implement engineering solutions.

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring software, analytics, and AI to life and is behind Astro, the unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. They are trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, letting businesses do more with their data.

Data Engineer

YLD
Europe

  • Responsible for building core infrastructure software (pipelines, APIs, data modelling) as part of our client's data platform team.
  • Coach & mentor other engineers to support the growth of their technical expertise.
  • Implementing the appropriate technologies for scaling data access patterns, batch processing, and data streaming for soft real-time consumption.

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy that creates digital capabilities for their clients. The company has offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto and aims to attract, inspire, develop, and retain extraordinary people.

Europe Asia

  • Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines to support AI, analytics, and operational reporting
  • Own and evolve the data warehouse architecture, ensuring it meets performance, flexibility, and governance needs
  • Ensure data integrity, availability, lineage, and observability across complex pipelines

Remote People is building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. Their technology handles global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, enabling businesses to compliantly hire anyone anywhere at the push of a button. They are a growing, international family.

$141,000–$216,000/yr
US

  • Design, deploy, and maintain large-scale Kafka event streaming infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Yelp's engineering culture values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions. They are a cooperative team of engineers who deploy working code their first week and strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams.

  • Work directly with enterprise customers to deploy and configure OpenTelemetry instrumentation across their environments.
  • Build custom integrations, dashboards, and tooling to help customers realize the full value of Dash0.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems, Kubernetes clusters, and observability pipelines.

Dash0 is building an AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil and is OpenTelemetry-native. They are backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability.

Europe

  • Build pipelines to load data from various systems into Dataiku via S3 or Snowflake.
  • Increase the robustness of existing production pipelines, identify bottlenecks, and set up a robust monitoring, testing processes, and documentation templates.
  • Build custom applications and integrations to automate manual tasks related to customer operations to help Product Operations / Support / SRE in their day-to-day activities

Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. The world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to operationalize AI and run it as a true business performance engine delivering measurable value.

$170,250–$283,750/yr
US 16w maternity

  • Design the end-to-end architecture for the operational data platform.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to define and govern reference architectures and canonical data models.
  • Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, internal and external access controls.

Gravie creates health benefits for small and midsize businesses and their employees. They are an innovative company of unique people who encourage you to be your authentic self.

$220,000–$250,000/yr
US

  • Run deep, structured discovery with customer stakeholders and translate pain into an actionable technical plan.
  • Design, implement, and validate solutions, balancing speed, security, and maintainability.
  • Configure the platform, stand up integrations, troubleshoot, and deliver working deployments.

Relyance AI helps customers translate privacy, security, and AI governance challenges into working solutions. They foster a hospitable and data-driven culture and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

$175,000–$210,000/yr
US

  • Design and build the core data infrastructure powering Vantage's platform.
  • Own architecture decisions for systems built on ClickHouse, Temporal, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
  • Drive reliability, performance, and scalability initiatives across the platform as data volume and customer load grows

Vantage is the FinOps platform built for modern engineering teams. They are a high-output team of ~50 employees based in New York City with a remote-friendly culture.

$147,900–$203,000/yr
US 4w PTO

  • Design data transformation pipelines that convert raw health signals, user inputs, and third-party data into structured, queryable context
  • Architect event-driven ingestion using tools like Kinesis, EventBridge, and SQS - handling duplicate events, traffic spikes, and partial failures gracefully
  • Define flexible data models and schemas for a hierarchical health context ontology that evolves as new context types emerge

Oura is dedicated to empowering individuals to take ownership of their inner potential. They provide award-winning products that enable their global community to gain deeper insights into their readiness, activity, and sleep quality through the Oura Ring and its connected app, enhancing the health and lives of millions.