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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** SAFELEASE LLC
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Software as a Service, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Online Analytical Processing, Online Transaction Processing, Query Optimization, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Data Ingestion, AWS Lambda, Backend, Build Management, Star Schema, Front End Software Development, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6884b300f1b32ae4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SQL?, * 3-6 years working on data infrastructure or backend systems in production

 * Strong Python: you write clean, testable code and know when to reach for a library vs. rolling your own
 * Strong SQL: complex joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization feel natural
 * Experience designing and shipping cross-system data pipelines (ETL/ELT) that are reliable in the real world
 * Comfort interpreting data - you become the expert on the data you touch
 * Collaborative instincts: you'll work closely with product, frontend, analytics, research

Nice to have

 * Experience with dbt for SQL-native transformation layers
 * Familiarity with Airflow, Prefect, or another orchestration framework
 * Exposure to AWS Lambda, IAM, KMS, MWAA, ECS/EKS
 * Background at an insurtech, proptech, or similarly regulated domain
 * Opinions about data modeling: star schema, OBT, normalization tradeoffs
 * Experience being one of the first data engineers at a company

## Description

As a Data & Backend Engineer building our Data Platform, you'll design and build our data infrastructure from the ground up: ingestion pipelines that span multiple systems, Python and SQL transformations that give the whole company a trustworthy view of our business, and backend structures making that data accessible where it's needed. You'll be a force multiplier for every team at SafeLease.

What you'll build

 * End-to-end data pipelines integrating sources across our internal and external apps, 3P vendors and Saas systems
 * Transformations within and between infrastructure: OLTP, OLAP and S3
 * Backend Python services and APIs that expose platform data to internal consumers and downstream workflows
 * Monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks so we know when something breaks before anyone else does
 * Data architecture decisions that will create agility and the ability to scale the business


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