1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Cartago, Costa Rica

$145k-$175k / yearest.

full-timelead Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts to power cross-functional teams with reliable, actionable data at a profitable digital media company. You'll build and optimize ETL and data lake processes, own data ingestion and transformation, and partner with BI to deliver query-ready datasets. This role stands out for its high-performance, remote-first culture across 15+ countries.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Build and optimize scalable ETL and data lake processes
  • Own ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data
  • Partner with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets
  • Maintain database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience in 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

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Looker dashboards
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams
  • Mentoring experience and shaping engineering culture

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🌍 Remote-first team spanning over 15 countries
  • 🚀 High-growth culture with ownership and impact
  • 💡 Accelerate career by owning outcomes and moving fast
  • 🤝 Global team of high-performers
  • 🏢 Profitable digital media company with 30M+ monthly visitors

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks · AI estimate

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