Senior Data Engineer - Platform
What You'll Do:
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work with the Platform team to design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions that contribute to Slingshot Aerospace's product offerings. You will be involved in every part of solution development, from ideation and design to development and deployment. You will work closely with other teams to find, evaluate and leverage new technologies and solve complex problems.
Position Responsibilities:
Assist in design, implementation, operations, and improvements to the Data ingest, processing, analytics, and governance Platform
Work with application, data, and science teams to leverage, process, and analyze data through traditional algorithms and evolving AI/ML models and implementations
Proactively support data management/cataloging and governance across the organization through collaboration, documentation, and specific frameworks/tools
Participate in Agile software develop and deployment processes
Mentor junior... and mid-level software engineers via pair programming
Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)
Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot's core values, mission, and purpose
Pre-Requisites
Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience architecting and developing products and solutions for data processing and analytics, business process management, or time-series based software
Strong engineering background, with experience implementing resilient and redundant event-driven microservices architectures with high observability
Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
Significant experience with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
Demonstrated knowledge with data lakes including AWS S3 implementations
Experience with data warehouses and OLAP frameworks such as Redshift, Pinot, Druid
Experience with data pipelines such as Airflow, Prefect, Argo
Experience working with streaming data systems including Kafka
Experience with data management/catalog framework such as OpenMetadata
Experience with other AWS services such as EC2, EKS, etc.
Skill and comfort working in a rapidly moving startup environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Preferred Skills
Use of AI/ML frameworks such as Ray/KubeRay
Scalable SaaS/PaaS Experience
Professional AWS certifications
Familiar with building cloud-agnostic, on-prem capable distributed systems
DoD / Intelligence Community / Federal Government experience a plus but not required
Early-stage data-centric startup experience
These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don't have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Remote, United States
Salary Range: $155,000-$190,000
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employee's points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work with the Platform team to design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions that contribute to Slingshot Aerospace's product offerings. You will be involved in every part of solution development, from ideation and design to development and deployment. You will work closely with other teams to find, evaluate and leverage new technologies and solve complex problems.
Position Responsibilities:
Assist in design, implementation, operations, and improvements to the Data ingest, processing, analytics, and governance Platform
Work with application, data, and science teams to leverage, process, and analyze data through traditional algorithms and evolving AI/ML models and implementations
Proactively support data management/cataloging and governance across the organization through collaboration, documentation, and specific frameworks/tools
Participate in Agile software develop and deployment processes
Mentor junior... and mid-level software engineers via pair programming
Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)
Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot's core values, mission, and purpose
Pre-Requisites
Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience architecting and developing products and solutions for data processing and analytics, business process management, or time-series based software
Strong engineering background, with experience implementing resilient and redundant event-driven microservices architectures with high observability
Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
Significant experience with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
Demonstrated knowledge with data lakes including AWS S3 implementations
Experience with data warehouses and OLAP frameworks such as Redshift, Pinot, Druid
Experience with data pipelines such as Airflow, Prefect, Argo
Experience working with streaming data systems including Kafka
Experience with data management/catalog framework such as OpenMetadata
Experience with other AWS services such as EC2, EKS, etc.
Skill and comfort working in a rapidly moving startup environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
Preferred Skills
Use of AI/ML frameworks such as Ray/KubeRay
Scalable SaaS/PaaS Experience
Professional AWS certifications
Familiar with building cloud-agnostic, on-prem capable distributed systems
DoD / Intelligence Community / Federal Government experience a plus but not required
Early-stage data-centric startup experience
These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don't have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Remote, United States
Salary Range: $155,000-$190,000
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employee's points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality