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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Data Engineer - **Company:** Mariana Minerals - **Location:** Houston, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $180,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, SQL Databases, Machine Learning Operations, Industrial Software, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5baed9bb78f83983 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Time Series Analysis?, * 4+ years in data engineering or a closely related role. * Strong Python and SQL, with deep experience designing database and warehouse schemas, including time-series and/or analytical data. * Proven experience building reliable, orchestrated data pipelines and operating them in the cloud with containers and CI/CD. * Experience with data quality, observability, and lineage, and comfort with messy real-world sources-drifting sensors, malformed exports, and the quirks of industrial systems. * A self-starter comfortable in high-ambiguity environments, working directly with process engineers, ML engineers, and operations teams. * Bonus: experience feeding data to ML systems-training datasets, feature pipelines, model monitoring-or working with industrial, sensor, or historian data. ## Description Mariana Minerals is building the critical minerals supply chain from the ground up-and we're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help make it autonomous. We're not a software company selling tools to mining operators. We are a mining company that builds software. Mariana designs, builds, commissions, and operates our own mines and refineries. We develop proprietary chemical processes and run them at lab, pilot, and commercial scale. Today, we're producing battery-grade lithium salts from real oil and gas wastewater in our facilities. Our first commercial-scale lithium production facility, Lithium One, is targeting initial production in Q1 of 2027. As a Senior Data Engineer at Mariana, you'll own a data domain end-to-end-designing the pipelines, schemas, and contracts that make a whole class of plant data trustworthy and queryable. The systems you build are the foundation every model and every operational decision depends on., * Work across domains-for example, all plant sensor and historian data, or all lab and analytical results-including schema design, orchestration, reliability, and the contract it exposes to everyone downstream. * Design and evolve our fleet of pipelines that pull from messy industrial sources-sensors, lab systems, historians, imagery, and more-into our databases and warehouse. * Model time-series and analytical plant data for both human analysis and machine learning training, validation, and monitoring; own data quality, observability, and lineage in your domain. * Build the data architecture that feeds production ML-the training and monitoring layer-in partnership with the ML engineers who own the model-specific semantics. * Mentor earlier-career engineers and define the data contracts other teams build against. * Work the boundary with machine learning deliberately: you own the platform and the interface it exposes; ML engineers own the features and models built on top of it. 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