Remote Staff Data Engineer: Scale Data Pipelines & Platform

CookUnity; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid in USD

Remote work

15 days vacation

Argentina holidays

Healthcare stipend

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid family leave

Compassionate leave

Flexible benefits

AI tools access

English coaching

Job summary

CookUnity is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape the data engineering foundation as we scale. You will translate data needs into scalable, production-ready pipelines and collaborate with the engineering, product, and data science teams to meet evolving business needs.

You will design robust batch and real-time data pipelines, optimize data models, and drive best practices across the data org. This is a chance to help CookUnity scale gracefully amid rapid growth, with remote-friendly policies

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with deep expertise in data processing tech and in writing complex SQL queries.
• Proven track record of driving innovation within highly technical, distributed teams.
• Proven track record in designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, Flink, Kafka).
• Demonstrable experience of building, productionalizing, and optimizing real-time and batch data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and build net new resilient batch and real-time data pipelines that power critical products and drive rapid business growth.
• Design and build data pipelines facilitating the migration from existing disparate data models into new data models and databases in production.
• Champion data reliability and performance by implementing proactive monitoring and quality-first engineering practices.
• Optimize data models to support fast, efficient decision-making across high-impact product and business use cases.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to translate evolving business needs into scalable, production-ready data solutions.
• Shape the future of data engineering at scale, helping define the long-term roadmap and setting best practices as we grow.
• Coach and level up teammates, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate strong self-direction and thrive in environments with high ambiguity.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

SQL

Data processing

Tools

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

CookUnity is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape the data engineering foundation as we scale. You will translate data needs into scalable, production-ready pipelines and collaborate with the engineering, product, and data science teams to meet evolving business needs.

You will design robust batch and real-time data pipelines, optimize data models, and drive best practices across the data org. This is a chance to help CookUnity scale gracefully amid rapid growth, with remote-friendly policies