1d ago
Lead Data Engineer
Seattle, WA
$150k-$190k / year
full-timelead Remotemedia
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts for a digital media company reaching 30M+ monthly visitors. You'll build and optimize ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure to empower cross-functional teams. This role offers high ownership and impact in a remote-first, performance-driven culture.
🎯 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 quality assurance
📋 Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering
- 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 shaping team culture
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 💰 Profit-sharing bonus
- 🏠 Remote-first team spanning over 15 countries
- 📈 Performance-driven increases based on company and personal performance
- 🏖️ Flexible paid time off (inferred)
- 💻 Home office stipend (inferred)
📨 Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
- 2Technical Interview· 60 min
- 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
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