Data Engineer — Build Production Data Products (NYC)

True; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown company is seeking a data engineer to build production-ready data products from complex consumer data, collaborating with data science and platform teams in New York.

You will design domain models, build robust ingestion and transformation pipelines, and backfill data while ensuring validation and observability. The role emphasizes ownership of data products and mentoring junior teammates in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
• Hands-on with large, messy multi-source datasets and data cleaning.
• Experience building production pipelines and customer-facing data products.
• Familiarity with orchestration/transform tools and modern data platforms.
• Degree in CS/engineering with strong technical fundamentals.
• Experience mentoring junior teammates and working in startups or high-growth teams.

Responsibilities

• Investigate unfamiliar datasets to understand structure and coverage.
• Design domain models and derived attributes for product use cases.
• Build ingestion/transformation pipelines with validation and backfills.
• Evaluate new data sources to improve consumer data products.
• Develop deep expertise in data domains like identity, property, or consumer intent.
• Partner with data scientists and platform engineers to build scalable products.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Mentoring

Education

CS or Engineering degree

Tools

Dagster

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

Spark

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Job description

Unknown company is seeking a data engineer to build production-ready data products from complex consumer data, collaborating with data science and platform teams in New York.

You will design domain models, build robust ingestion and transformation pipelines, and backfill data while ensuring validation and observability. The role emphasizes ownership of data products and mentoring junior teammates in a fast-growing environment.