1d ago

Staff Data Engineer

Palo Alto

$190k-$220k / year

full-timelead

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll own the telemetry data platform for vehicle-generated data at an electric mobility company. You'll design large-scale ingestion pipelines and operate end-to-end ETL/ELT systems from raw ingestion to warehouse consumption. This platform ownership role sits at the intersection of data engineering and backend systems.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Design and own large-scale ingestion pipelines for vehicle telemetry data
  • Architect and operate end-to-end ETL/ELT systems from raw ingestion to warehouse/lake consumption
  • Define schema evolution, versioning, and backward-compatibility strategies
  • Build fault-tolerant, observable pipelines with strong SLAs
  • Implement backend services and APIs for telemetry ingestion and orchestration

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 10+ years in data engineering or backend platform engineering
  • Deep hands-on experience with large-scale telemetry or IoT data
  • Strong expertise in AWS data services (S3, Kinesis, Glue, EMR, etc.)
  • Proven experience with Spark/PySpark on Databricks or EMR
  • Solid understanding of streaming architectures using Kafka or equivalent

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with vehicle, sensor, or IoT data
  • Streaming-first architectures
  • Experience supporting real-time inference pipelines

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿฅ Robust health coverage โ€” excellent health, dental, vision up to 100% covered
  • ๐Ÿ‘ถ Fertility and family-building benefits with Progyny
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Flexible time off
  • ๐Ÿ’ผ 401(k) match

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Phone Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3System Design Interviewยท 60 min
  4. 4Hiring Manager Interviewยท 45 min
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