Senior Data Engineer - Python Pipelines & Cloud AI

Caterpillar Inc.; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Engineering team. You will develop Python data pipelines and build business data objects to support applications, collaborating with Cat Digital on marketing, analytics, and AI initiatives.

Responsibilities include designing robust data solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring code quality with unit and integration tests. You will mentor teammates and contribute to scalable, high-quality software across the

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and developing software applications in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Git version control on medium to large teams.
• Exposure to CI/CD tooling and cloud services (AWS, Azure, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Develop Python data pipelines and build business data objects for applications.
• Collaborate with Cat Digital teams on global marketing, analytics and AI initiatives.
• Implement and maintain CICD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Translate requirements into robust data engineering solutions.
• Contribute to unit and integration testing to ensure reliability.
• Identify opportunities for code quality improvements and scalability.
• Support teams with engineering best practices and mentoring.
• Work across functional lines on new program development.
• Handle complex problem identification and resolution with limited supervision.

Skills

Python programming

Object-oriented programming

Git version control

CI/CD tooling

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

AWS services (Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Fargate, S3, SageMaker, IAM, RDS)

Snowflake

GenAI developer tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Engineering team. You will develop Python data pipelines and build business data objects to support applications, collaborating with Cat Digital on marketing, analytics, and AI initiatives.

Responsibilities include designing robust data solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring code quality with unit and integration tests. You will mentor teammates and contribute to scalable, high-quality software across the