Senior Data Engineer — Remote, GenAI & Cloud Data

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO program

Health benefits

Casual environment

Remote work flexibility

Growth opportunities

Job summary

The Ladders seeks a Senior Data Engineer in the United States to build and evolve scalable data infrastructure supporting analytics, data quality, and business decision-making. You will partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions across a modern cloud environment, with an emphasis on GenAI/LLM interfaces and standards.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience with large-scale distributed systems, analytical data warehouses, and streaming

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Proven expertise in building natural language interfaces and GenAI/LLM techniques.
• Experience with analytical data warehouses such as StarRocks, Redshift, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Expert SQL skills for writing, optimizing, and analyzing queries.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP for distributed data platforms.
• Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka and Spark.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and warehouse models.
• Develop natural language interfaces enabling data analytics access using GenAI/LLM techniques.
• Use GenAI coding tools in development workflows to improve code quality and delivery speed.
• Evaluate new technologies to scale the data platform effectively.
• Establish and enforce SQL development standards, including testing and documentation protocols.
• Support production data pipelines through on-call duties and incident response.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and document the technology stack.

Skills

SQL expertise

GenAI/LLM experience

Distributed systems

NLP interfaces

Streaming tech

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Spark

StarRocks

Redshift

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

The Ladders seeks a Senior Data Engineer in the United States to build and evolve scalable data infrastructure supporting analytics, data quality, and business decision-making. You will partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions across a modern cloud environment, with an emphasis on GenAI/LLM interfaces and standards.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience with large-scale distributed systems, analytical data warehouses, and streaming