Senior Data Engineer

Own the data ingestion and governance layer for Cari Network's analytical platform, building foundational pipelines and governance practices from a largely blank slate while guiding platform evaluation and technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design ingestion pipelines from transactional and event infrastructure
• Evaluate analytical platform options
• Build data governance practices
• Enforce the transactional source-of-truth boundary
• Define data quality and reconciliation practices
• Write RFCs and design documents
• Define monitoring, alerting, and failure recovery standards
• Mentor less-senior data engineers

Requirements

• 5–7 years of data engineering experience
• Hands-on pipeline design experience
• Knowledge of AWS-native data tooling, Snowflake, and Databricks tradeoffs
• Experience building data governance practices
• Experience with access control, audit logging, and data lineage
• Understanding of analytical layers derived from transactional sources of truth
• Production experience with Kafka, MSK, PostgreSQL, or equivalent tools
• Strong written communication
• Experience owning a domain independently in a developing function

Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity
• Full medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 401(k) with matching program
• Flexible vacation policy (PTO)
• Remote-first work environment