1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Bogota, Colombia

$145k-$185k / yearest.

full-timesenior Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts at a profitable digital media company, building reliable data pipelines on AWS. Your work will directly empower cross-functional teams to drive strategic growth. You'll own ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data, ensuring Launch Potato's analytics infrastructure fuels decision-making.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Build and optimize scalable ETL and data lake processes
  • Own ingestion, modeling, and transformation of data
  • Partner with BI and Analytics to deliver query-ready datasets
  • Maintain database monitoring, anomaly detection, and QA workflows

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience in cloud-native environments
  • Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
  • Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Looker dashboards
  • Mentoring or team leadership experience
  • Knowledge of data quality best practices

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🌍 Remote-first culture with global team
  • 🚀 High-growth environment with ownership and impact
  • 💡 Accelerate your career through fast-paced work

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks · AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Call· 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
  3. 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
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