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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** THE GUAC INC.
- **Location:** Weehawken Township, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Application Layers, Business Logic, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Cursor, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Operational Data Store, OpenAI, Standard Sql, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Fastapi, Data Layers, Pandas, Build Management, Pyspark, Dask, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75908118-data-engineer

## About the Role

* 3+ years of relevant data engineering experience
 * Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas, etc.) and SQL
 * Proven experience designing and implementing ETL systems across large distributed datasets, using orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow
 * Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process - you thrive when given a problem and trusted to figure out the solution
 * AI-native: you use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI coding tools daily and ship significantly faster because of it
 * (Bonus) Experience optimizing ML pipelines or working closely with ML/forecasting systems
 * (Bonus) Experience with distributed computing frameworks like PySpark or Dask, * Languages & Frameworks: Python, FastAPI, SQL
 * Data & Pipelines: Dagster, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Postgres, Dask, Pandas
 * Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, Docker
 * AI: MCP servers, Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, agentic tooling

## Description

As a Data Engineer at Guac, you'll own the data infrastructure that powers our forecasts - the pipelines that ingest billions of rows of transaction, inventory, and operational data from grocers across the continent, and the systems that turn that data into accurate predictions multiple times a day.

You'll shape how we model new customers' data, build pipelines that scale across chains with hundreds of stores, and work on our ML systems to make them faster and more accurate. You'll occasionally work directly with customers' technical teams to understand their data and business logic - but the bulk of your time is on engineering.

Your responsibilities will include:

Data & Pipelines

 * Design and build ETL pipelines that process billions of rows of data multiple times per day across customers, using Python, Dagster, and Pub/Sub
 * Model new customer datasets and own the data layer for new deployments - from raw integration to forecast-ready
 * Optimize our ML pipelines for demand forecasting - making them faster, cheaper, and more accurate at scale
 * Partner with customers' technical teams to understand their data systems and business logic, and translate that into our pipelines

Backend

 * Contribute to backend services (Python/FastAPI) that power our ordering and production planning products
 * Build internal tools and APIs that expose forecasts and data to our application layer
 * Expose our data and systems to LLMs via MCP servers, tool-use APIs, and similar protocols