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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** OTTER, INC.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, BigQuery, Software as a Service, Cloud Database, Computer Programming, Information Engineering, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Data Logging, Snowflake, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-data-engineer-otterai-9000907

## About the Role

* Has 5+ years of experience in data engineering
 * Has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
 * Is highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion.
 * Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL
 * Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
 * Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
 * Is experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
 * Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads
 * Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
 * Has worked in fast-paced tech, AI or SaaS environments

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and build the core data foundations that power analytics, experimentation, and decision-making across the company. In this role, you will design and own foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable self-serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale.

You will partner closely with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering teams as a technical thought leader who helps teams extract meaningful value from data. This is a high-ownership role in a growing company, and you will have a direct impact on how data is collected, modeled, and used to drive the business forward.

Your Impact

 * Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics
 * Design, operate, and scale reliable data pipelines and platforms
 * Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data products
 * Influence data collection and logging standards across production systems
 * Establish best practices for data modeling, quality, and governance
 * Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection
 * Provide technical leadership that improves data reliability and data literacy


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