Raylu
Senior Data Engineer
- Compensation
- $165K–$250K / yr
- Location
- New York, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Core stack: Python, Dagster, DuckDB
- Pipelines at scale: Building resilient ELT/ETL with strong contracts, idempotency, and lineage.
- Data operations: Set quality bars, manage BPO workflows, and run SLAs with external data partners.
- Serving & access: Position data for production use from serving infrastructure, documentation, and SLAs for internal consumers.
- Cost & performance: You tune storage/compute and keep a sharp eye on unit economics.
- Opinionated: Deep level of understanding of the technological landscape, making both high level system and granular code design decisions based on understanding rather than preference - diving deep on
Nice to have
- Experience with big data, columnar storage formats, vector indexes, and privacy/compliance in data products.
Full description
Position Summary
We’re hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own data at truly massive scale. You’ll design and run pipelines that clean, enrich, and serve data spanning hundreds of attributes across 80M+ companies and 800M+ people. The role blends classic data engineering with data operations, vendor/BPO orchestration, and data partnerships.
What we’re looking for
- Core stack: Python, Dagster, DuckDB
- Pipelines at scale: Building resilient ELT/ETL with strong contracts, idempotency, and lineage.
- Data operations: Set quality bars, manage BPO workflows, and run SLAs with external data partners.
- Serving & access: Position data for production use from serving infrastructure, documentation, and SLAs for internal consumers.
- Cost & performance: You tune storage/compute and keep a sharp eye on unit economics.
- Opinionated: Deep level of understanding of the technological landscape, making both high level system and granular code design decisions based on understanding rather than preference - diving deep on unknown patterns in order to build the best product.
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Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data flows: ingestion, normalization, entity resolution, enrichment, and delivery.
- Stand up monitoring for freshness, completeness, and accuracy; drive RCA and prevention.
- Build internal tools that make data discoverable and usable by engineering and product.
- Recruit, onboard, and manage BPO vendors; negotiate and run data partnerships.
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Nice to have
- Experience with big data, columnar storage formats, vector indexes, and privacy/compliance in data products.
Logistics:
- Compensation: $165K - $250K salary, $100K-200K equivalent in new hire equity (4 year vest)
- Location: New York City. We are a fully in-office team working out of Midtown Manhattan Monday through Friday. We allow for WFH days when anyone is traveling, but we do not allow for permanent remote work.
- Benefits:
- Generous health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k with 3% automatic contribution (no vesting)
- Paid Lunches
- Wellness and Citi Bike benefit