1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Heredia, Costa Rica

โœจ $130k-$160k / yearest.

full-timesenior Remotemedia

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๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data. You'll own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support business intelligence and analytics. You'll contribute to a high-performance engineering culture by mentoring peers and driving data quality.

๐ŸŽฏ 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 clean datasets
  • Maintain database monitoring and anomaly detection workflows
  • Serve as internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering within 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

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills with BI and analytics teams
  • Strategic thinking and proactive ownership

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐ŸŒ Remote-first global team spanning over 15 countries
  • ๐Ÿš€ High-growth, high-performance culture with ownership and impact
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive compensation (estimated range)
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Career acceleration through owning outcomes and fast execution
  • ๐Ÿค Collaborative cross-functional teams

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Hiring Manager Interviewยท 45 min
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