Expert Python engineer
JELLYFISH, LLC
Boston, United States of America
20 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 260KJob location
Remote
Boston, United States of America
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Airflow
JIRA
Data Infrastructure
Software Design Documents
Programming Tools
Github
Data Processing
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Gitlab
Cloudformation
Data Lake
Terraform
Data Pipelines
Job description
- Jellyfish is rewriting the manual on how high-performing engineering teams actually work within an AI world. We're seeking a Staff Data Engineer who's passionate about building and scaling robust data infrastructure, defining integration patterns, and driving technical strategy across large-scale systems.
- Ideally, you combine deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence architecture and direction across teams. This is a high-agency role where you'll help shape not just what gets built, but how we build it - and raise the bar for the engineers around you
- Define the architecture and long-term technical direction, design and implementation of our data pipelines and integrations platform for storage, transformation and export at scale
- Drive integrations with third-party tools and establish the standards that make future integrations faster and more reliable
- Own our infrastructure as code strategy using Terraform, and contribute to how we evolve our cloud data infrastructure
- Architect workflow orchestration systems for near-real-time and batch data processing, with a focus on reliability and scalability
- Lead the design and implementation of data export pipelines that serve diverse customer needs
- Spearhead development of internal tooling and agentic workflows that meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity across the org
- Serve as a technical anchor - leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and elevating how the team approaches complex problems
- Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap prioritization, cross-team dependencies, and org-wide technical strategy
- Communicate clearly about technical decisions, tradeoffs, and project status to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements
- Expert Python engineer with strong opinions about how to build reliable, maintainable systems at scale
- A natural technical leader - you build consensus, unblock others, and make the engineers around you better
- You have production experience with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster) and can make the hard architectural calls
- AI - driven developer who dives deep into AI first workflows
- You have deep expertise building and scaling data pipelines, and a track record of owning complex data infrastructure end-to-end - not just contributing to it
- Located in EST or CST time zone
- Designed and led large-scale third-party API integration work, and you know what separates a maintainable integration from a brittle one
- Exceptional communicator who can write a design doc, lead a review, and distill a complex tradeoff for any audience
- Fluent in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and think about infrastructure as a product, not an afterthought
- Experienced with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.) and understand the unique infrastructure demands they create
- You think in systems: you consider user needs, business impact, and long-term maintainability when designing solutions
- You've thrived at a rapidly scaling startup and know how to balance speed with technical rigor
- You've built deep integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems) and have strong opinions about how to do it well
- You have hands-on experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
- You bring strong perspectives on how engineering teams work best - and the tools that help or hurt
Benefits & conditions
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Flexible workplace (our HQ is in Boston, MA but Jellies live all over the US)
- Stock options so you can be a part of Jellyfish's future success
- Flexible time off (plus 13 company holidays)
- Paid parental leave
- Pet insurance
- Outings and events (team dinners, Red Sox games, game nights and more)
- 401(k) (pre-tax and Roth contribution options)
- Financial wellness resources through Fidelity
- Top-tier medical and dental plans to keep you and your family in good health
- Plans available for vision, voluntary life, accident, critical illness, and hospital coverage - plus we cover the costs for short term and long term disability coverage
- Commuter benefits