Data Engineer

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product.

The role:

Looking for a Data Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The operations team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. We are headquartered in Abu Dhabi and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Job duties:

• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers.
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies.
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs.
• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures.

You'll need:

• Strong Python for data processing.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.

Desirable:

• Background in finance or marketing data.

Benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Company laptop.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pearl Cloud LLC.