Principal Data Engineer

About us:

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The role:

Tri-County Systems is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join a small, steady team. 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 New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Croatia, with a local contract and salary paid in euros. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Day to day:

Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR. Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests. Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg. Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.

About you:

8-10 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume. Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions. Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code. Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services. Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning.

What you get:

Rate: €5,300 - €6,500 monthly

Annual salary review. Flexible hours. Co-working space stipend. Home office setup budget.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tri-County Systems.