Remote Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time, Scalable Pipelines

Midwest Startups; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Equity plan

Bonuses and incentive programs

Open PTO and holidays

Wellness days

Job summary

Mode.Inc is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to architect, build, and operate Mode Mobile’s data platform. You will lead large-scale pipelines processing billions of daily events, enabling real-time and batch use cases across product, growth, analytics, AI and data monetization.

You’ll work with engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to ensure data is reliable, secure, scalable, and actionable. This is a hands-on, production-focused role in a fast-growing, multi-product company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and owning live production data systems.
• Expert-level SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Kafka, and modern data processing frameworks.
• Experience with AWS services for running data infrastructure.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Proficiency in at least one data engineering language: Python, Scala, or Java.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT design patterns, and scalable data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of large-scale data pipelines, streaming systems, and data lakes handling billions of daily events.
• Design and implement robust solutions supporting both real-time and batch processing.
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions around performance, cost, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure high data quality through strong ETL/ELT patterns, testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Own data systems running in live production environments with uptime, reliability, and correctness.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and failure modes—and address them before they impact the business.
• Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure data platforms are secure, compliant, and resilient.
• Work closely with product engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, growth, and business teams to understand data needs and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Build tools, frameworks, and datasets that empower others to move faster and make better decisions.
• Mentor and support other engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence and ownership across teams.
• Continuously explore new tools, patterns, and technologies that improve our data platform.
• Evaluate build vs. buy decisions with a pragmatic mindset, balancing speed, scalability, and long-term value.
• Help shape the technical roadmap for Mode Mobile’s data platform as we grow through both organic expansion and acquisitions.

Skills

Live production data systems

SQL

Python

Java

Scala

Spark

Kafka

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Mode.Inc is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to architect, build, and operate Mode Mobile’s data platform. You will lead large-scale pipelines processing billions of daily events, enabling real-time and batch use cases across product, growth, analytics, AI and data monetization.

You’ll work with engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to ensure data is reliable, secure, scalable, and actionable. This is a hands-on, production-focused role in a fast-growing, multi-product company.