Senior Data Engineer (Emerging Products)

Location: Remote from home within the USA, limited to CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA; hybrid work is available from offices in Austin, TX or Tampa, FL. Chicago city limits are excluded. Onsite interviews may be required.

Base salary: $140,000–$200,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global provides a Unified IT Operations Platform for endpoint management, patching, backup, remote access, and IT operations for nearly 40,000 customers in 140+ countries.

What you will do

• Design and implement Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallion-layer lakehouse architectures.
• Build and maintain scalable Kafka, Spark, and Airflow streaming and batch pipelines.
• Manage Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi table formats and select suitable formats for different workloads.
• Optimize large-scale analytics queries in Trino/Starburst and Databricks environments.
• Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data quality and performance issues, and improve platform reliability.
• Partner with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver data platform solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of data engineering experience focused on data platforms and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building and managing lakehouse architectures with Medallion layering.
• Deep expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and Apache Airflow for streaming and batch pipelines.
• Proficiency with Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi, including evaluating trade-offs and selecting formats for workloads.
• Experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing and analytics.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Trino or Starburst for distributed query execution.
• Familiarity with hybrid streaming/batch architectures and event-driven data systems.
• Experience designing Gold-layer datasets for business intelligence and self-serve analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, kind, and curious working environment.
• Full-time hybrid-remote flexibility.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), and PTO, including unlimited PTO.
• Opportunities for growth and advancement.