Senior Data Engineer - Remote (EU/EST Friendly)

Correlation One; Union (NJ); Remote; USD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance subsidies

Unlimited time off

Company holidays

Data skills training

Diversity culture

Job summary

Correlation One is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate reliable, analytics-ready data systems powering decision-making across the organization. You will contribute to key data pipelines, partner with analytics stakeholders, and help evolve our data platform to be scalable and trustworthy.

This hands-on role emphasizes production data quality and making pragmatic technical decisions in ambiguous environments, with mentoring responsibilities and a focus on collaboration.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering or closely related roles.
• Strong experience building and maintaining production data pipelines using Python.
• Hands-on experience integrating data from external APIs.
• Experience operating batch ELT pipelines and working with data warehouses.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience modeling data for analytics and reporting use cases.
• Experience working with orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation tools, and comfort working closely with analytics teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of production systems, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments and making pragmatic technical decisions.
• Experience working in a cloud environment such as GCP (or equivalent).
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and source control (e.g., GitHub).
• Experience working in collaborative, iterative development environments.
• Additional preferred experience:
• Designing or migrating pipelines toward incremental loading patterns
• Working with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience with data quality tooling, testing, or observability
• Exposure to BI tools or supporting analytics workflows
• Experience learning and adopting new tools or technologies quickly

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term technical vision for the team
• Design technical strategy to develop components, frameworks and libraries to create seamless applications for our customers
• Hands‑on development of scalable components and applications
• Mentor engineers including senior and junior engineers on their team
• Improve and uphold standards for engineering and operational excellence
• Create and encourage comprehensive documentation for code, libraries, and components to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team

Skills

Data engineering

Python pipelines

API data integration

ELT pipelines

Advanced SQL

Airflow

dbt

GCP

CI/CD

GitHub

Terraform

Data quality

BI tools

Observability

Job description

Correlation One is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate reliable, analytics-ready data systems powering decision-making across the organization. You will contribute to key data pipelines, partner with analytics stakeholders, and help evolve our data platform to be scalable and trustworthy.

This hands-on role emphasizes production data quality and making pragmatic technical decisions in ambiguous environments, with mentoring responsibilities and a focus on collaboration.