Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer building cloud-native Databricks and AWS data platforms for a commercial laser fusion company. Designing real-time pipelines, observability, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable cloud-native data platforms from greenfield to production
- Design and implement near-real-time ingestion pipelines using event-driven patterns
- Define and enforce data platform standards including Data Lake/Lakehouse principles, medallion architecture, and data contracts
- Refactor, optimize, and modernize Spark and PySpark scripts
- Introduce best practices for code quality, testing, and CI/CD across data pipelines
- Drive adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows within the data engineering team
- Ensure data quality, observability, and reliability across pipelines and platforms
- Design and deliver self-service tooling and microservices that abstract platform complexity
- Collaborate directly with the Customer’s scientific and engineering teams
- Monitor platform performance, reliability, and cloud infrastructure costs
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering
- 3+ years of production experience with Databricks and Delta Lake
- Strong expertise in medallion architecture and event-driven asynchronous pipeline design
- Advanced proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL
- Deep hands-on experience with Databricks, including Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Jobs/Workflows, and job optimization
- Strong AWS expertise including S3, IAM, KMS, AWS Batch, ECR, EventBridge, Lambda, or API Gateway
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD using Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles
- Practical experience with Git workflows, pull request reviews, and automated testing
- Experience configuring secure CI pipelines using OIDC or service principals
- Practical MLflow experience including experiment tracking, model registration, and reproducibility practices
- Strong understanding of data quality, lineage, provenance, schema contracts, and versioning
- Experience with data quality frameworks such as Great Expectations, Soda, pyDeequ, or Databricks Labs DQX
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and cloud cost optimization
- Upper-Intermediate English level or higher
- Strong analytical mindset
- Ownership and accountability
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
- Proactive approach to problem-solving
- Attention to scalability and maintainability
- Collaborative and team-oriented attitude
Benefits:
- Remote work option
- Opportunity to work on innovative global projects
- Opportunity to contribute to breakthrough fusion research and clean-energy sustainability
- Exposure to engineering excellence, automation, and AI adoption within the data platform ecosystem




















