Data Engineer - Snowflake - Remote

More than 300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Overview

Edwards Apps is hiring a Data Engineer - Snowflake - Remote to work remotely from Uruguay. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Uruguay, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time.

Responsibilities

• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports
• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR

What you need

• 2-4 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Strong Python for data processing
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions

Preferred

• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census
• Terraform for data infrastructure

Benefits

• Flexible hours
• Performance bonus
• Home office setup budget
• Company laptop
• 20 days paid time off

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Uruguay.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Edwards Apps.