Senior Data Engineer, GraphQL APIs & AWS Pipelines (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life Insurance

Job summary

The Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract to launch a new IAM initiative. You will design and evolve low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines across the enterprise, building microservices on AWS and ensuring production readiness.

Join a small team and work EST hours, with potential conversion. The role emphasizes data engineering fundamentals, scalable pipelines, and strong observability, in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering and backend service development.
• Hands‑on expertise with GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Strong proficiency with PySpark or Scala/Spark, batch processing, and AWS Glue.
• Experience with Snowflake and building scalable data pipelines.
• Advanced AWS experience focused on Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and associated services.
• Prior senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring and reliability.
• Background delivering low‑latency, highly available microservices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain low-latency GraphQL APIs used in critical developer runtime flows.
• Develop and enhance data pipelines using PySpark or Apache Spark, Snowflake, and AWS Glue.
• Implement microservices on AWS using Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and related services.
• Ingest, transform, and serve data to power API responses with strong data modeling and quality practices.
• Set up monitoring, observability, and alerting for APIs, data jobs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with IAM stakeholders to support an agentic risk-identification initiative.
• Contribute to architecture, security, and performance reviews for cloud-native services.
• Work within EST hours in a fully remote environment and participate in a streamlined interview process.

Skills

GraphQL API design

PySpark

AWS

Snowflake

Data modeling

Production monitoring

Low-latency microservices

Tools

AWS Glue

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Job description

The Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract to launch a new IAM initiative. You will design and evolve low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines across the enterprise, building microservices on AWS and ensuring production readiness.

Join a small team and work EST hours, with potential conversion. The role emphasizes data engineering fundamentals, scalable pipelines, and strong observability, in a fully remote setup.