Senior Data Engineer - Remote GraphQL & AWS Pipelines

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching and life保险

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract in the United States. You will design and build low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines supporting enterprise developer workflows, using PySpark, Snowflake, and AWS Glue, with microservices on AWS.

The role operates on EST hours, offers W2 benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with company match, life insurance), and a rate of $80.00-$90.00 per hour, with potential conversion to full-time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering and backend service development.
• Hands-on GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Strong PySpark or Scala/Spark experience with batch processing.
• Experience with Snowflake and scalable data pipelines.
• Advanced AWS experience focused on Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB.
• Senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain low-latency GraphQL APIs used in developer runtime flows.
• Develop data pipelines using PySpark or Apache Spark, Snowflake, and AWS Glue.
• Implement microservices on AWS using Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and related services.
• Ingest, transform, and serve data to power API responses with strong data modeling and quality practices.
• Set up monitoring, observability, and alerting for APIs, data jobs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with IAM stakeholders to support an agentic risk-identification initiative.
• Contribute to architecture, security, and performance reviews for cloud-native services.
• Work within EST hours in a fully remote environment and participate in a streamlined interview process.

Skills

GraphQL API design

PySpark

Spark

Data modeling

AWS

Tools

AWS Glue

Snowflake

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract in the United States. You will design and build low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines supporting enterprise developer workflows, using PySpark, Snowflake, and AWS Glue, with microservices on AWS.

The role operates on EST hours, offers W2 benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with company match, life insurance), and a rate of $80.00-$90.00 per hour, with potential conversion to full-time.