1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Asheville, NC

$150k-$190k / year

full-timesenior Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts at Launch Potato, a digital media company. You'll own ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure to empower cross-functional teams with reliable data. This role offers the chance to shape a high-performance data culture.

🎯 What You'll Do

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

📋 Requirements

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

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Looker dashboards.
  • Mentoring experience.
  • Exposure to BI and analytics collaboration.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Competitive base salary with profit-sharing bonus.
  • 🏡 Remote-first team spanning 15+ countries.
  • 📈 High-growth culture with ownership and impact.
  • 🎓 Career acceleration with fast-moving projects.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks · AI estimate

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