Senior Data Engineer - Build Lakehouses on AWS Remote

Chaos Gears; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

B2B contract 23 000-29 000 PLN net

Medical care package

Multisport card co-financing

Training budget

Language learning platform access

Flexible working hours & remote work

Company events

Continuous learning and growth

Job summary

Chaos Gears is building a data platform on AWS, delivering scalable data lakehouse architectures and ELT pipelines using dbt, Airflow, and modern warehouses. You will own end-to-end data solutions, from ingestion to observability, in a hands-on role with real ownership.

Join a small engineering team, design orchestration, migrate between layers, and push production-ready code. Fluency in English and Polish is required; remote-friendly with flexible hours and continuous learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering with production-grade delivery.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and at least one modern orchestration tool (Airflow preferred).
• Solid Python skills and experience building and operating data pipelines.
• Familiarity with data lake/lakehouse concepts (Iceberg) and batch/streaming architectures.
• Experience with at least one modern warehouse or query engine.
• Comfort with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
• High agency: autonomous, goal-driven, can organize own work to deliver.
• Fluency in English and Polish, written and spoken (C1/C1).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Data Lakehouse and Warehouse architectures on AWS.
• Build and maintain ELT pipelines using dbt, dltHub, and Airflow.
• Design orchestration and migrate between orchestration layers when needed.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and lineage across the platform.
• Deploy your own solutions to production, no handoffs, full ownership.
• Collaborate with a small engineering team and contribute to technical decisions.

Skills

Data engineering

dbt

Airflow

Python

Data Lakehouse

Terraform

English

Polish

Batch processing

Observability

Tools

Apache Iceberg

DuckDB

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Athena

Snowflake

Kafka

Kinesis

dbt

OpenMetadata

Terraform

Airflow MWAA

Job description

Chaos Gears is building a data platform on AWS, delivering scalable data lakehouse architectures and ELT pipelines using dbt, Airflow, and modern warehouses. You will own end-to-end data solutions, from ingestion to observability, in a hands-on role with real ownership.

Join a small engineering team, design orchestration, migrate between layers, and push production-ready code. Fluency in English and Polish is required; remote-friendly with flexible hours and continuous learning opportunities.