Senior Data Engineer: GraphQL, Spark & AWS (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a fully remote, contract role focused on building low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines within Identity and Access Management. The position emphasizes microservices on AWS, production monitoring, and scalable data flows, aligned with EST hours.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of data engineering experience, expert GraphQL design skills, and deep AWS knowledge. W2 employment with benefits is offered; conversion may be possible.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data engineering and backend 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 related services.
• Prior senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring and reliability.
• Background delivering low-latency, highly available microservices at scale.
• Ability to operate in a small, high-impact team and augment existing pipelines.

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 Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS

AWS DynamoDB

Snowflake

Spark

Data pipelines

Tools

GraphQL APIs

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a fully remote, contract role focused on building low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines within Identity and Access Management. The position emphasizes microservices on AWS, production monitoring, and scalable data flows, aligned with EST hours.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of data engineering experience, expert GraphQL design skills, and deep AWS knowledge. W2 employment with benefits is offered; conversion may be possible.