Senior Data Engineer - Event Data & Streaming Pipelines

movableink; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Financial benefits

Bonus potential

Job summary

Movable Ink seeks an experienced data engineer to build and operate high-volume event data systems for products and internal teams. You will shape streaming architecture, improve availability and speed, and migrate legacy pipelines with minimal disruption.

You will develop production services in Elixir and Python, design data models for fast queries, and collaborate with platform, product engineering, and analytics teams to meet data needs and ensure robust monitoring and runbooks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering or backend/systems engineering with streaming/event-driven systems.
• Strong Elixir and/or Python for building services and pipelines.
• Advanced SQL and experience with columnar/OLAP databases.
• Experience with stream processing and brokers such as Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis.
• Ability to migrate data pipelines with minimal disruption to consumers.
• Experience operating data systems in AWS; familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Clear communication skills for cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain streaming pipelines ingesting events from client systems and internal services.
• Develop analytical data models and databases for high-volume, low-latency queries.
• Build production services in Elixir and Python to process, transform, and route events.
• Plan migrations from legacy pipelines to newer streaming systems with minimal disruption.
• Define event schemas, data contracts, and quality practices with data-producing and consuming teams.
• Monitor pipeline health, freshness, and service commitments with dashboards and runbooks.
• Collaborate with platform, product engineering, and analytics on data needs and system design.

Skills

Elixir

Python

SQL

Streaming pipelines

Data integration

Tools

Elixir

Python

SQL

Flink

Kafka

Pulsar

Kinesis

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Job description

Movable Ink seeks an experienced data engineer to build and operate high-volume event data systems for products and internal teams. You will shape streaming architecture, improve availability and speed, and migrate legacy pipelines with minimal disruption.

You will develop production services in Elixir and Python, design data models for fast queries, and collaborate with platform, product engineering, and analytics teams to meet data needs and ensure robust monitoring and runbooks.