Senior Data Engineer — Production Data Platforms (Remote)

Climb; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Pro

Health, dental, vision insurance

Remote-first environment

Professional development budget

Databricks certifications

Conference attendance

Collaborative culture

Career growth

Job summary

Climb is a Data and AI consultancy seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own data engineering workstreams within client engagements, from discovery to production and handoff.

You will design, build, and operationalize data platforms powering analytics and AI, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions on Databricks and cloud ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Advanced experience building production data pipelines with Apache Spark (PySpark and SQL).
• Hands-on production experience with Databricks (Delta Lake, Jobs, Workflows, Unity Catalog).
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more data engineering workstreams, from design through production deployment and handoff.
• Design and implement scalable data models and lakehouse architectures.
• Optimize performance and cost across Databricks and the underlying cloud.
• Orchestrate workflows using Databricks Workflows or equivalent tooling.
• Implement governance, security, observability, and lineage with Unity Catalog; stand up CI/CD for data.
• Design and build AI-ready data platforms enabling analytics and ML.
• Engage with client stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Review code, mentor junior engineers, and maintain high engineering standards.

Skills

Spark PySpark

Databricks

SQL

Cloud Platforms

Data Modeling

Production Pipelines

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Delta Lake

Databricks Workflows

Unity Catalog

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Climb is a Data and AI consultancy seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own data engineering workstreams within client engagements, from discovery to production and handoff.

You will design, build, and operationalize data platforms powering analytics and AI, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions on Databricks and cloud ecosystems.