Senior Data Engineer, Databricks

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. The Data Platform team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. Velvetridge needs someone who writes solid SQL and Python and treats pipelines like production software. We are headquartered in Houston and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Nepal, with a local contract and salary paid in Nepalese rupees. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll be doing

• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan
• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies

Skills and experience

• Strong Python for data processing
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow

Benefits

Rate: NPR 240,000 - NPR 300,000 a month

• Performance bonus
• Annual salary review
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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