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

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