Senior Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Pipelines

Karat; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Karat is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable cloud‑based data pipelines, turning raw data into actionable insights. You will be a hands‑on technical leader who translates business questions into durable data models and reliable pipelines.

The role emphasizes data quality, observability, and collaboration across product, engineering, and analytics, with technologies like PostgreSQL, Redshift, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, machine learning, or related technical roles
• Strong experience building, operating, and improving production data pipelines
• Expertise with relational and columnar databases, including advanced SQL and dimensional data modeling principles such as fact and dimension tables
• Proficiency with Python, Docker, and workflow‑orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow
• Hands‑on experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms
• Strong grounding in software‑engineering practices, including version control, code review, testing, observability, and documentation
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud‑based data pipelines that ingest and transform data from product, operational, and third‑party systems
• Own data‑pipeline architecture, including orchestration, monitoring, reliability, performance, and data quality
• Develop workflows, transformations, and data models that transform raw data into useful, trusted, and actionable information
• Improve data quality through validation, observability, monitoring, and clear ownership of critical datasets
• Help manage and improve our existing data stack, including PostgreSQL and Redshift databases, Airflow for orchestration, and Terraform for infrastructure management
• Help strengthen data literacy across technical and non‑technical teams through clear communication and thoughtful partnership

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Airflow

AWS

Data modeling

Data quality

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Airflow

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Karat is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable cloud‑based data pipelines, turning raw data into actionable insights. You will be a hands‑on technical leader who translates business questions into durable data models and reliable pipelines.

The role emphasizes data quality, observability, and collaboration across product, engineering, and analytics, with technologies like PostgreSQL, Redshift, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and AWS.