Senior Data Engineer, Remote — Real-Time Data Platform

Mode Mobile, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Equity plan

Open PTO

Wellness days

Weekly Get Stuff Done Days

Job summary

Mode.Inc is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect, build, and operate Mode Mobile’s data platform. You’ll lead the development of large-scale data systems that process billions of events daily, enabling real-time and batch use cases across product, growth, analytics, AI, and data monetization.

This hands-on role requires ownership, accountability, and collaboration with engineering, data science, analytics, growth, and business teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and owning live production data systems.
• Expert-level SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Kafka, and modern data processing frameworks.
• Experience with AWS services for running data infrastructure.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT design patterns, and scalable data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of large-scale data pipelines, streaming systems, and data lakes handling billions of daily events.
• Design and implement robust solutions supporting both real-time and batch processing.
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions around performance, cost, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure high data quality through strong ETL/ELT patterns, testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Own data systems running in live production environments with uptime, reliability, and correctness.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and failure modes—and address them before they impact the business.
• Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure data platforms are secure, compliant, and resilient.
• Work closely with product engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, growth, and business teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Build tools, frameworks, and datasets that empower others to move faster and make better decisions.
• Mentor and support other engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence and ownership across teams.
• Continuously explore new tools, patterns, and technologies that improve our data platform.

Skills

Production data systems

SQL

Python

Scala/Java

ETL/ELT design

Data modeling

AWS

Data architectures

Tools

Spark

Kafka

AWS services

Terraform

Job description

Mode.Inc is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect, build, and operate Mode Mobile’s data platform. You’ll lead the development of large-scale data systems that process billions of events daily, enabling real-time and batch use cases across product, growth, analytics, AI, and data monetization.

This hands-on role requires ownership, accountability, and collaboration with engineering, data science, analytics, growth, and business teams.