Remote Staff Data Systems Engineer - Python + ETL

Northbeam LLC; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Healthcare benefits (medical, dental,

401(k) plan

Flexible PTO

12 company-paid holidays

12 weeks parental leave

Work-from-home stipend

Job summary

Northbeam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Data Systems who will own the architecture of our data ingestion and integration platform. You’ll influence how we onboard data sources, define abstractions, and ensure reliability across both real-time and batch pipelines.

You’ll work across product, engineering, and leadership to shape a scalable data foundation, mentor engineers, and drive durable, high-quality system design while shipping impactful features.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering experience owning large-scale ingestion, ETL, or integration platforms.
• Deep proficiency in Python, and strong SQL and cloud data warehouse experience (BigQuery or equivalent).
• A track record of designing API-based ETL systems at scale — REST, GraphQL, webhooks, and the authentication and multi-tenancy concerns that come with them.
• Production depth with orchestration (Airflow or similar) and containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated technical leadership: setting direction, aligning engineers who don't report to you, and improving how a team builds, not just what it ships.
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating engineering practice across a team or org.
• Sound judgment about when to invest in platform durability and when to ship and move on.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of our ingestion and integration platform, setting the patterns that determine how quickly and safely we onboard new data sources.
• Define technical direction for event-driven and batch processing across the company, and make the build/buy and migration calls that go with it.
• Establish the standards for observability, data freshness, and failure handling that the data systems team works to — and hold the bar on them.
• Lead design across team boundaries, working with data engineering, infrastructure, and product to keep platform decisions coherent.
• Raise the ceiling of the engineers around you through design review, mentorship, and the code you write.
• Identify the platform problems nobody has scoped yet, make the case for solving them, and drive them to completion.

Skills

Python

SQL

BigQuery

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Airflow

Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Docker

Job description

Northbeam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Data Systems who will own the architecture of our data ingestion and integration platform. You’ll influence how we onboard data sources, define abstractions, and ensure reliability across both real-time and batch pipelines.

You’ll work across product, engineering, and leadership to shape a scalable data foundation, mentor engineers, and drive durable, high-quality system design while shipping impactful features.