Senior Data Modeling & Pipeline Engineer — Scale Core Data

Greenfield Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenfield Talent is seeking a hands-on Data Modeling & Pipeline Engineer to build the foundational data layer powering reporting and ML/AI products. You’ll transform messy production data into reliable models and scalable pipelines across a lean data team.

Ideal candidates thrive in ambiguity, move quickly in a startup environment, and can demonstrate measurable impact from prior roles. Onsite 4 days/week in NYC, SF, or Denver is required.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years in analytics or data science at a high-growth company
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Math, Engineering, or a hard science
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Ability to clearly articulate business impact with quantified outcomes
• Experience partnering with product and operations teams
• Background in regulated industries (fintech, insurance, logistics, shipping)
• Familiarity with GCP/BigQuery, Python, or Terraform

Responsibilities

• Build and mature the company’s core data models and pipelines
• Clean up and scale existing data infrastructure to support enterprise customer integrations
• Partner with product and operations to understand data needs and deliver accurate outputs
• Work directly with engineers to interpret complex production data and maintain accurate Metabase dashboards
• Improve data quality, governance, and reliability to enable future ML/AI products
• Ensure data models and pipelines are robust, scalable, and production‑ready
• Experience building data models and pipelines at a VC‑backed startup or a modern tech company founded after 2005 (e.g., Stripe, Uber, Lyft, Datadog) — FAANG does not count
• Advanced SQL in complex, high‑volume production environments
• Willingness to work onsite 4 days/week in Denver, SF, or NYC

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Engineering or hard science

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

GCP

Python

Terraform

Job description

Greenfield Talent is seeking a hands-on Data Modeling & Pipeline Engineer to build the foundational data layer powering reporting and ML/AI products. You’ll transform messy production data into reliable models and scalable pipelines across a lean data team.

Ideal candidates thrive in ambiguity, move quickly in a startup environment, and can demonstrate measurable impact from prior roles. Onsite 4 days/week in NYC, SF, or Denver is required.