Automation Engineer

Rust-Oleum; Clearwater (FL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Company Pension Plan

Continuing education

Job summary

Tremco is seeking an Automation Engineer to lead end-to-end project delivery, from requirements to deployment and iteration. You will replace manual workflows with scalable software, build internal web apps, APIs, and data integrations, and ensure robust validation and testing.

You will translate ambiguous business needs into technical specs, design data models, and orchestrate data pipelines using modern tooling.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python/TypeScript/Node.js/C#).
• Ability to build automation/services handling data and APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational fundamentals; understand migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal software, data pipelines, and integrations to replace Excel.
• Translate business needs into functional/technical specs.
• Develop robust, scalable systems with validation/testing.
• Operationalize ML and use pre-trained models for tasks like classification and forecasting.
• Ingest data from files, forms, SaaS tools, and databases.
• Implement ETL/ELT pipelines with monitoring.

Skills

Backend languages

REST APIs

SQL

Git workflow

Technical communication

Education

Computer Science / Engineering / Data Science / AI/ML

Tools

FastAPI / Flask / Django

ASP.NET Core

NestJS / Express

Airflow / Dagster / Prefect

Docker / CI/CD

Job description

GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

The Automation Engineer leads end-to-end project delivery, including requirements gathering, system architecture, prototyping, production deployment, and ongoing iteration.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and build company-owned internal software, data pipelines, and integrations to replace Excel as an operational backbone


• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear functional and technical specifications


• Select appropriate tools, technologies, and architectures to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions


• Develop robust, efficient, and reliable systems, ensuring accuracy and correctness through validation and testing


• Drive execution and delivery, shipping improvements quickly and iterating based on feedback and results


• Replace manual workflows with production software


• Translate informal processes into clear data models, services, and user-facing tools.


• Build internal web apps, APIs, and automation services that users adopt.


• Ingest data from files, forms, SaaS tools, and internal databases.


• Implement ETL/ELT pipelines with validation, lineage, and monitoring.


• Integrate systems via REST APIs, webhooks, queues, and scheduled jobs.


• Design relational schemas, enforce constraints, manage migrations.


• Build \"single source of truth\" datasets for analytics + operations.


• Operationalize ML


• Use pre-trained models (LLMs / vision / classical ML) for classification, extraction, routing, forecasting, etc.


• When needed: fine-tune/train on company data, evaluate properly, deploy with monitoring.

EDUCATION:

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML

EXPERIENCE:

• Proficiency in at least one backend language: e.g.Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or C#/.NET


• Ability to build automation/services that handle data, integrate APIs, and run reliably in production.


• Strong SQL and relational fundamentals (schema design basics, joins/aggregations, constraints, query debugging; Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server).


• Ability to build and consume REST APIs (HTTP basics, auth patterns, pagination, error handling).


• Solid software engineering fundamentals: data structures + OOP, readable, maintainable code, debugging and refactoring.


• Git workflow experience (branches, pull requests, code review habits).


• Clear technical communication: can write clean documentation

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Framework experience: FastAPI / Flask / Django, ASP.NET Core, NestJS / Express


• Data pipeline orchestration tooling: Airflow / Dagster / Prefect


• Docker experience and basic CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)


• Cloud exposure (AWS / Azure / GCP): managed databases, object storage, message queues


• Building SaaS integrations using REST APIs / webhooks

The salary range for applicants in this position generally ranges between $100,000 and $160,000.This range is an estimate, based on potential employee qualifications, operations, needs, and other considerations permitted by law.

Tremco offers a variety of benefits to its employees, including but not limited to: health insurance, paid time off, 401(k) with company match, Company Pension Plan, and continuing education.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.