Data Engineer
After School Matters, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
4 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$93,600.0 - $114,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Java (Programming Language)
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Artificial Intelligence
Airflow
BigQuery
Cloud Database
Software Documentation
Code Review
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
Data Validation
Information Engineering
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Data Infrastructure
Extract Transform Load (ETL)
Data Security
Data Warehousing
Relational Databases
Database Queries
Software Debugging
Python (Programming Language)
Operational Databases
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization
Cloud Services
Workflow Management Systems
Snowflake
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Job description
- Build, maintain, and improve reliable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and deliver data across the client’s data platform.
- Own data engineering projects and pipelines through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.
- Work with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, APIs, files, and cloud services to support production workloads and optimize them for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
- Support warehouse development through thoughtful schema design, data modeling, testing, documentation, data quality practices, and query optimization.
- Improve ingestion, orchestration, validation, retries, backfills, monitoring, and alerting while helping reduce recurring operational work.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully to accelerate development, debugging, documentation, and analysis while maintaining strong standards for accuracy, security, review, and engineering judgment.
- Own end-to-end data lifecycle management - From ingestion and transformation to modeling, orchestration, and serving layers.
- Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability - Implement testing frameworks, observability, monitoring, lineage, and data validation practices.
- Drive platform optimization and cost efficiency - Continuously improve performance, scalability, and cloud cost management across the data ecosystem.
- Establish engineering best practices - CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, documentation standards, and secure data handling.
- Partner cross-functionally with technical and business stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, production-grade solutions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4-5 years of industry experience in software or data engineering, including experience building or supporting production data systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or another general-purpose language, plus strong SQL skills.
- Experience building or maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and working with technologies such as dbt, Fivetran, or similar tools.
- Hands-on experience building production pipelines for file ingestion into a data warehouse.
- Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Cloud Composer/ Good experience with Airflow.
- Understanding of data modeling, data quality, relational data, and query and performance optimization.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.
- Ability to troubleshoot production systems methodically and communicate effectively with technical and business partners.
- Experience in Financial Services or FinTech preferred
No C2C resumes are considered
About the company
FocusKPI Inc. is an analytics consulting company servicing Fortune 500 clients in the IT industry.
We are hiring:
- Data Scientists
- Business Analysts
- Database Engineers
- BI Developers
- Data Architects
- Marketing Analysts
- Web Developers
- and other similar roles
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