Lead Data Engineer

Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Binghamton and several other countries.

Role overview:

Nowak Apps has an opening for a Lead Data Engineer. The Data Platform team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modeling and data quality checks. Hybrid, with three days a week in our Berkeley office.

Job duties:

• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Stream events through Kafka or Kinesis into the lake and warehouse
• Manage warehouse objects, roles and spend in Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Strong Python for data processing
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code

Preferred qualifications:

• Terraform for data infrastructure
• Background in finance or marketing data
• Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA or HIPAA data handling rules

Rate: $230,000 - $305,000/year

Why work with us:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 11 paid holidays
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Professional development budget

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Start: Immediately.

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