1d ago

Senior Data Engineer

Cartago, Costa Rica (remote)

$130k-$170k / yearest.

full-timesenior Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts at Launch Potato, a digital media company reaching over 30M monthly visitors. You'll build and optimize ETL and data lake processes in an AWS environment, powering cross-functional teams with reliable data for strategic growth. This role offers a remote-first culture with a global team of high-performers.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Build and optimize scalable ETL and data lake processes
  • Own ingestion and transformation of structured and unstructured data
  • Partner with BI and Analytics to deliver query-ready datasets
  • Maintain database monitoring and data quality workflows

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in data engineering 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
  • Experience mentoring peers
  • Knowledge of streaming data (Kinesis)

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🌍 Remote-first team spanning over 15 countries
  • 🚀 High-growth, high-performance culture
  • 💡 Own outcomes and drive impact with autonomy

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks · AI estimate

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