Senior Software Engineer (Databricks)

Location: Remote in Ohio, United States

Company

hirify.global is a learning science company delivering personalized learning experiences and education products for students, parents, educators, and professionals.

What you will do

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and solution designs with product and engineering leaders.
• Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, and Databricks Workflows.
• Design reporting data models using dimensional modeling and medallion architecture.
• Build and optimize the Unity Catalog SQL serving layer, including views, materialized views, and table-valued functions.
• Tune Spark and SQL performance, manage compute costs, and maintain data quality, observability, and reliability through automation, testing, and monitoring.
• Apply data governance and access controls, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers on data engineering practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software or data engineering experience, including 3+ years building production data pipelines on Databricks or an equivalent Spark platform in AWS.
• Experience delivering production-grade, fault-tolerant software in a fast-paced environment with a distributed team.
• Advanced SQL skills, including tuning complex analytical queries over large datasets.
• Expertise in data warehousing, lakehouse concepts, data modeling, and cloud data architecture.
• Strong applied knowledge of several of Unity Catalog governance, batch and incremental ETL/ELT, Spark performance tuning, REST services, AWS data services including Athena, Glue, EMR, and Lambda, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Git.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Education or publishing domain experience.
• Streaming or CDC ingestion, such as Kafka into Delta Lake.
• Data quality frameworks including Delta Live Tables and Great Expectations.
• Databricks certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on reporting and personalization features at scale for products used by millions of users.
• Culture focused on curiosity, innovation, and professional growth.
• Remote role associated with Ohio, United States.
• Automated employment decision tools are used in screening, with an opt-out alternative available.