Senior Data Engineer: Global Data Platform & Remote

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Equity

Health, vision & dental insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior or Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and own the data platform powering our analytics and operations. You will drive ingestion, warehouse, and BI capabilities across multiple regions, shaping our lakehouse strategy with Databricks and related technologies.

You will own production data infrastructure end to end, partnering with product and security teams to deliver robust, observable pipelines and trusted data for stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering.
• Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain business-critical data pipelines, including data ingestion and AWS Glue/Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
• Build and operate core data infrastructure: the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform, deployed across multiple regions.
• Help evaluate and shape our warehouse strategy, including lakehouse platforms such as Databricks.
• Define and evolve batch or event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams, reasoning through batch vs. streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant/multi-region trade-offs.
• Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models.
• Build observability into pipelines and platform components.
• Drive work across producer and consumer teams, communicate clearly, and own outcomes end to end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data architecture

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Observability

Collaboration

Ownership

Production data infra

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Glue

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Tableau

SQL

Python

Apache Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior or Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and own the data platform powering our analytics and operations. You will drive ingestion, warehouse, and BI capabilities across multiple regions, shaping our lakehouse strategy with Databricks and related technologies.

You will own production data infrastructure end to end, partnering with product and security teams to deliver robust, observable pipelines and trusted data for stakeholders across the organization.