Earnest LLC Oakland CA
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Duties: The Senior Data Engineer (Multiple Positions Open) at Earnest LLC in Oakland CA will
design and implement tooling and abstraction patterns for orchestrating transformations in Extract
Load and Transform (ELT) processes by utilizing technologies such as Airflow and DBT. Develop
CI/CD pipelines troubleshoot and identify and resolve defects through standard techniques such as
debugging profiling logging or log analysis. Design and implement integrations with third-party
RESTful APIs to retrieve data and ingest it into the data warehouse thereby enabling downstream
analytical workflows and business intelligence initiatives. Develop ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting
data from internal and external services into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse along with setting
up ELT monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and performance. Establish and
maintain data infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform provide technical leadership by guiding the
team in selecting appropriate technologies tools and languages to address both technical and
business challenges. Collaborate with analytics engineers data analysts and data scientists to support
building and optimizing data pipelines for analytics and reporting. Cooperate with senior leadership
to strategize and implement sustainable data architecture initiatives as well as facilitating cross-
functional requirements gathering sessions with engineering product management analytics and
data science teams to understand and fulfill data needs. Create and maintain detailed documentation
for data engineering processes including data ingestion transformation and storage to ensure clarity
and transparency within the team and among stakeholders. Document break down and estimate
project planning in JIRA provide estimates for project completion and communicate acceptance
criteria for project completion. Train other data engineers on ETL/ELT tooling coach engineers on
best practices for data exposure and storage in production and provide feedback on coding and
architecture via GitHub or through pair programming. Position is 100% remote. Salary: $151070 per
year.
Requirements: Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Information Systems or a closely
related field plus 3 years of software development experience. The 3 years of experience must
include 3 years of experience with each of the following: (1) building and managing data pipelines
data warehouses and backend services; (2) Python; (3) SQL; (4) OLTP databases including
Postgresql or MySQL; (5) OLAP databases including Snowflake or BigQuery or Redshift; (6) AWS
cloud technologies; (7) orchestration tools including Airflow Dagster or Prefect; (8) container
technologies including Docker or Kubernetes; (9) server-side concepts; (10) building and
maintaining REST APIs or Graphql for data transfer; (11) real-time data streaming using Kafka or
Spark; (12) automating tasks with bash scripting; (13) data infrastructure provisioning using
Terraform; and (15) code version control using Git.
This notice is subject to Earnest LLCs employee referral program.
Interested candidates can apply online at or send a resume to
and reference job code 063.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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