Senior Data Engineer

Progress Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Unlimited PTO

Learning budget

Wellness allowance

Home office budget

Flexible hours

Job summary

Progress Partners is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build a data platform from scratch. You’ll design ingestion pipelines for payments, marketing analytics, and operations across AWS and GCP into a Lakehouse, owning end-to-end architecture in a hands-on role.

You’ll work with dbt transformations, Airflow orchestration, and BigQuery, shaping medallion layers and cost-aware infrastructure. This remote, async-first environment values outcomes over hours.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production data platforms and pipelines from the ground up.
• Deep expertise in Airflow, including lineage, backfill, and retry strategies.
• Hands-on experience with dbt, version-controlled transformations.
• Strong AWS and GCP skills, with Terraform for infrastructure as code and FinOps mindset.
• Ability to work autonomously in a remote, async environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build ingestion pipelines for high-volume data across payments, marketing analytics, and operations.
• Build the data infrastructure for a Lakehouse using AWS and GCP.
• Develop medallion-layer transformations (Bronze → Silver → Gold) in dbt with BigQuery.
• Own orchestration end-to-end in Airflow, including lineage, backfills, retries, and alerts.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code and cost-control best practices.

Skills

Airflow

dbt

AWS

GCP

Terraform

BigQuery

Tools

dbt

Job description

About Progress Partners

Progress Partners is a fast-growing technology company building and scaling next-generation SaaS and mobile platforms. We blend creativity with data-driven execution to ship high-impact products, including AI-powered tools, productivity platforms, and workflow software, used by millions of people in more than 160 countries.

Our global team of experts in software development, product design, growth, and analytics collaborates across time zones to deliver category-defining innovations. We work end-to-end across the product lifecycle: design, build, launch, and scale.

If you’re passionate about building transformative products, Progress Partners is a place to make a lasting impact.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to build our data platform from scratch, a rare greenfield opportunity to make the foundational architecture calls yourself. You’ll design the pipelines that bring together high-volume payment transactions, marketing analytics, and operational data across AWS and GCP into a unified Lakehouse. This is a hands‑on, ownership‑heavy role.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build ingestion pipelines for high-volume payment data (Stripe, PayPal, Solidgate), marketing analytics (GA4, GTM, Google Ads, Amplitude), and operational databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL).

• Build the data infrastructure for a Lakehouse using AWS and GCP.

• Build medallion‑layer transformation models (Bronze → Silver → Gold) in dbt, with payments and marketing data on BigQuery.

• Own orchestration end-to-end in Airflow, lineage, sensors, backfills, retries, and alerting across the full asset graph.

• Implement infrastructure as code best practices, cost controls etc.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years building production data platforms and pipelines from the ground up.

• Deep expertise in Airflow, including lineage, backfill, and retry strategies.

• Hands‑on experience with dbt, version‑controlled transformations.

• Strong AWS and GCP skills, with Terraform for infrastructure as code and a cost‑conscious (FinOps) approach.

• Strong written communication and the ability to work autonomously in a remote, async environment.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with data mesh principles, domain ownership, or data product design.

• Experience with Lakehouse architecture and Starburst Galaxy.

How We Work

We’re fully remote and distributed across time zones. We default to async, communicate in writing, and trust people to deliver outcomes, not log hours. Decisions are transparent, ownership is clear, and your work is visible from day one.

Interview Process

We’ve designed our interview process to be transparent, respectful of your time, and a genuine two‑way conversation, we want to get to know you, and we want you to get to know us. You’ll always know what stage you’re at, what to expect next, and roughly how long things will take.

• Initial screen with our Talent Acquisition Team - 30 min

• Take‑home assessment - Estimated effort: 4–6 hours

• Technical Interview with the Head of Data - 60 min

What We Offer

• Remote‑first: work from anywhere in the world, no relocation required.

• Flexible hours: we measure outcomes, not time at a desk.

• Unlimited PTO: take the time you need to rest, recharge, and do your best work.

• Learning & development budget: courses, books, conferences, certifications, whatever helps you grow.

• Home office & wellness allowance: a dedicated budget to set up your workspace and support your health.

• A small, senior, collaborative team where your work is visible and your decisions matter.

• The chance to build products used by millions of people across 160+ countries.

Equal Opportunity

Progress Partners is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about building a diverse, inclusive team. We welcome applications from people of all genders, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, disabilities, neurotypes, family situations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences.

We hire on skills, experience, potential, and values fit, never on protected characteristics. If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, just let us know.