Data Engineer

ErthDev; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from Egypt

Medical insurance

Learning opportunities

Mentorship and cross-industry projects

Paid annual leave

Job summary

ErthDev is seeking a part-time data engineer to build dependable data foundations that support analytics, product features, and business decisions. The role spans ingesting data from applications, APIs, and operational systems, shaping it for clear use, and keeping pipelines reliable in production.

You will develop pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery; model datasets with clear semantics and attention to quality; monitor pipeline health, investigate failures, and improve lineage

Qualifications

• . Strong SQL skills and experience delivering production data pipelines.
• . Python or equivalent experience for data processing.
• . Understanding of data modeling and common data quality issues.
• . Experience with cloud data services or data warehouses.
• . Ability to debug operational problems and work with non-data teams.
• . Careful handling of privacy and access permissions.

Responsibilities

• Develop pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
• Model datasets with clear semantics and attention to quality.
• Monitor pipeline health, investigate failures, and improve lineage visibility.
• Tune performance and operating costs; support reporting and operational dashboards as needed.
• Work with backend, product, and analytics colleagues to understand data needs.
• Document datasets and transformations, define ownership, and apply appropriate access controls to sensitive data.

Skills

SQL

Data pipelines

Python

Data modeling

Data quality

Privacy & access controls

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Prefect

BigQuery

Redshift

Snowflake

Job description

**Role overview**

Build dependable data foundations that support analytics, product features, and business decisions. The work spans ingesting data from applications, APIs, and operational systems, shaping it for clear use, and keeping pipelines reliable in production.

**Responsibilities**

• Develop pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
• Model datasets with clear semantics and attention to quality.
• Monitor pipeline health, investigate failures, and improve lineage visibility.
• Tune performance and operating costs; support reporting and operational dashboards as needed.
• Work with backend, product, and analytics colleagues to understand data needs.
• Document datasets and transformations, define ownership, and apply appropriate access controls to sensitive data.

**Requirements**

• Strong SQL skills and experience delivering production data pipelines.
• Python or equivalent experience for data processing.
• Understanding of data modeling and common data quality issues.
• Experience with cloud data services or data warehouses.
• Ability to debug operational problems and work with non-data teams.
• Careful handling of privacy and access permissions.

**Nice to have**

• Experience with dbt, Airflow or Prefect, BigQuery, Redshift or Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, or ELT approaches.

**Benefits and work setup**

Part-time role, fully remote from Egypt, with flexible hours and some collaboration overlap. Cairo office access is available when needed. The package includes paid annual and sick leave, performance bonuses, annual salary reviews, medical insurance, equipment and internet support, and learning opportunities such as courses, certifications, and conferences. Mentorship and work across different industries are also offered.