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