Senior Data Engineer - GraphQL & AWS (Remote)

Eliassen Group

Little Rock (AR)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 124,000

Full time

14 days+

Application generator

Turn this role into an interview — a resume and cover letter built around what this employer wants.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a remote, contract role targeting a new IAM initiative. You will build low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines, focusing on microservices on AWS and robust production monitoring.

The project involves working in EST hours with a small, focused team and potential conversion. Expect 10+ years in data engineering, hands-on GraphQL experience, and strong skills with PySpark, Snowflake, and AWS services.

Qualifications

10+ years in data engineering and backend development.
Hands-on with GraphQL API design and implementation.
Proficiency with PySpark/Scala Spark, batch processing, and AWS Glue.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain low-latency GraphQL APIs used in critical developer runtime flows.
Develop and enhance data pipelines using PySpark or 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.