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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** Perry Weather - **Location:** Dallas, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Business Systems, Software as a Service, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Dimensional Modeling, SQL Azure, Operational Data Store, Operational Databases, Software Tools, SQL Databases, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Data Strategy, Acumatica Cloud ERP Platform, Data Lakes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Management, Hubspot, Zendesk, Code Restructuring, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Automation Anywhere, Databricks - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-data-engineer-perry-weather-9991760 ## About the Role * 7+ years in data engineering, or backend engineering with deep data ownership. * At least one cloud-native data platform you designed, built from scratch, and operated in production yourself. * Enterprise-scale data lake, lakehouse, or warehouse experience where you owned the schema, storage, and partitioning decisions. * Expert SQL and dimensional modeling. You can design a model that survives a changing business and explain a metric definition to a non-technical executive. * Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, CI/CD, code review, and infrastructure as code. * Reliable ETL/ELT across operational databases, imperfect SaaS APIs, and telemetry streams. * A track record supporting executive reporting where the numbers carried real consequences. * Hands-on depth in a modern cloud data stack. Synapse, Databricks, or Snowflake experience all count. * Fluency with AI-native engineering tools and agentic workflows (e.g., terminal-native coding agents, LLM-assisted code refactoring and data pipeline generation) to multiply technical output and speed up development cycles. * A builder mindset: strategic enough to pick the right architecture, hands-on enough to ship it. You do the work, not the work around the work. ## Description We're hiring our first Data Engineer to build Perry Weather's data platform from the ground up. You'll design the architecture, build it, and run it in production. You'll also be accountable for whether the company trusts and uses what you build. Today our operational data lives across Azure SQL Server, TimescaleDB, and business systems including HubSpot, Zendesk, and Acumatica. Nothing unifies them yet. Your job is to build the lakehouse and analytics platform that does, and to make it serve three things at once: executive decision-making, internal AI workflows, and a new line of customer-facing data products. As the first hire on the data team, you set the architecture and the standards that later hires inherit. The bar is high. We want someone who has built a data platform from zero before, has strong opinions about how it should be done, and prefers an open mandate to a defined one., * Own the data platform end to end. Architecture, ingestion, modeling, orchestration, testing, cost, and reliability. You make the build-vs-buy calls and stand behind them. * Unify our operational and business systems. Bring Azure SQL Server, TimescaleDB, HubSpot, Zendesk, Acumatica, and sensor telemetry into one modeled, documented, queryable layer the company treats as the source of truth. * Own data reliability. Data contracts, freshness and quality SLAs, lineage, observability, and the on-call rotation behind them, so problems surface before they reach a dashboard. * Build the foundation for our first data products. Our platform collects weather observations, sensor telemetry, environmental conditions, alerts, and operational events. You'll build the infrastructure that turns that into customer-facing analytics, APIs, benchmarking, and historical datasets, multi-tenant and secure from the first release. * Lead our AI data strategy. Build the pipelines and centralized datasets behind internal AI agents and LLM workflows, and partner with department leaders to automate repetitive work. We want a real point of view on where AI creates durable value, grounded in systems thinking, not tool lists. * Set the standard for the team that follows. Define how we model data, review changes, and document decisions. Help us hire the next data engineers. * Work directly with the business. Finance, Revenue, CX, Product, and the executive team. 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