Senior DataOps Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, or Fremont, California, United States; 4–5 days per week in the office. Occasional travel is required for in-person meetings and company events.

Salary: $140,000–$170,000 annual base salary; California range: $154,000–$187,000. The position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electrified pickup trucks and rugged SUVs while building a new automotive company and data platform from the ground up.

What you will do

• Design, implement, automate, maintain, and support enterprise-scale cloud data platforms using Databricks, AWS, and infrastructure as code.
• Lead the development and optimization of ETL/ELT pipelines and scalable batch and streaming data pipelines with PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, and Databricks Workflows.
• Configure and optimize Databricks clusters for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Design data models, enterprise data structures, integration solutions, and BI dashboards for trends and forecasts.
• Design, train, and deploy ML models and build monitoring solutions for reliable data infrastructure.
• Collaborate with software, systems, security, product, development, and business teams to maintain compliant and robust platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on DataOps engineering experience in a manufacturing or automotive environment.
• Experience with Databricks lakehouse solutions, streaming and event-based architecture, Terraform, Python, and SQL.
• Experience with AWS data services such as Glue, Kinesis, and Firehose, as well as AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Experience with structured, unstructured, and time-series databases, including RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, or InfluxDB.
• Proven ability to develop, train, deploy, and optimize scalable ML models and extract actionable insights for forecasting and decision-making.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced environment focused on building new automotive products.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, plus paid bereavement, jury duty, voting, and military leave.