Remote Senior Data Engineer — Scale High-Volume Pipelines

Talantir; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote work

Job summary

Talantir is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale data pipelines and distributed systems within a backend-focused data platform. This 100% remote role emphasizes Python development and robust production-grade data movement in AWS for a SaaS environment.

You will work with event-driven or streaming architectures, PostgreSQL at scale, and data infrastructure designed from the ground up. Equity is offered along with a base salary and remote work across the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines in production environments.
• Experience with event-driven or streaming systems (SQS, Kafka, or similar).
• Designing data infrastructure in AWS from the ground up.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data pipelines in production environments.
• Work with event-driven or streaming systems (SQS, Kafka, or similar).
• Design and evolve data infrastructure in AWS for scale.
• Develop backend services or microservices supporting data movement.
• Collaborate with SaaS or product-focused engineering teams.
• Operate within high-throughput data systems.

Skills

Backend development

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Python

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

SQS

ECS

Docker

Job description

Talantir is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale data pipelines and distributed systems within a backend-focused data platform. This 100% remote role emphasizes Python development and robust production-grade data movement in AWS for a SaaS environment.

You will work with event-driven or streaming architectures, PostgreSQL at scale, and data infrastructure designed from the ground up. Equity is offered along with a base salary and remote work across the United States.