Associate Data Engineer

Los Angeles 3 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
Position Overview Primary Title: Data Engineer (Remote, United States). Industry Sector: Financial services — investment risk analytics, portfolio engineering, and enterprise data platforms. We build scalable data infrastructure and analytics pipelines that power risk signals, regulatory reporting, and client-facing analytics for institutional customers. We are recruiting a remote Data Engineer to join a high-performance engineering team focused on operationalizing large-scale ETL/ELT and streaming data solutions. You will design, implement, and operate resilient data pipelines and platform components that deliver timely, accurate analytics for trading, risk, and reporting use-cases. Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver high-quality datasets for analytics and ML. • Author and optimize reusable ETL/ELT workflows using managed orchestration (e.g., Airflow) and Spark-based compute for performance and cost-efficiency. • Implement and maintain cloud data platform components (data warehouses, storage, access controls) to support ad-hoc analytics and production reporting. • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and SREs to define data schemas, validation rules, monitoring, and SLAs for production datasets. • Drive data engineering best practices: modular code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and infrastructure-as-code. • Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements. Required Qualifications • Python • SQL • Apache Spark • Apache Airflow • Snowflake • AWS Proven experience building production data pipelines for analytics or risk workflows; strong troubleshooting and system-design ability; familiarity with data governance, lineage, and observability practices. Candidates should be authorized to work in the United States. Preferred Qualifications • dbt • Apache Kafka • Terraform Benefits & Perks • Fully remote, US-based role with flexible work policies and distributed engineering teams. • Focus on professional growth: technical mentorship, learning budget, and opportunities to influence platform design. • High-impact environment where engineering ownership and data quality drive business outcomes.