Senior Data Engineer — Remote, AI-Ready Data Pipelines

TopDog Law LLC; United States; Remote; USD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

TopDog Law LLC is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own a business domain's data end-to-end, focusing on reliable ingestion and trustworthy numbers. You will partner with the Director of Data to translate strategy into production systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across pipelines.

Required: 5+ years building production data pipelines, expert dbt, API ingestion mastery, and strong Python/SQL skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Expert-level dbt — staging/mart architecture, incremental models, tests, macros, documentation, and exposures.
• Mastery of API-based data ingestion — authentication and token-refresh, pagination, rate limiting, retry/backoff, and assembling incremental pulls into complete datasets.
• Demonstrated expertise across other ingestion source types (webhooks, files, databases/CDC), including schema drift, idempotency, backfills, and incremental loading.
• A strong track record designing data-quality frameworks — freshness/volume/reconciliation/anomaly checks and alerting.
• Strong Python for custom extraction, loading, and tooling.
• Fluent SQL and hands-on experience with a modern cloud data warehouse (BigQuery or Snowflake).
• Experience architecting a clean, documented, AI-ready SSOT for analytics and AI consumers.

Responsibilities

• Own ingestion end-to-end for the domain, including config, raw landing, and dbt models.
• Build tests, contracts, and monitoring to ensure trustworthy numbers.
• Deliver the full pipeline and runbooks, with clear domain definitions.
• Architect a clean, AI-ready single source of truth with well-documented data.
• Implement platform reliability, monitoring, alerting, and observability across pipelines.
• Review peers' work and mentor others to raise team impact.
• Translate business needs into data solutions and document decisions.

Skills

5+ yrs exp

Python

SQL

APIs ingestion

Data quality

AI-ready SSOT

Ownership

Git collaboration

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

dbt Cloud

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

TopDog Law LLC is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own a business domain's data end-to-end, focusing on reliable ingestion and trustworthy numbers. You will partner with the Director of Data to translate strategy into production systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across pipelines.

Required: 5+ years building production data pipelines, expert dbt, API ingestion mastery, and strong Python/SQL skills.