Senior Data Reliability Engineer - AWS | Remote

Empower; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time

Parental leave

BRGs

Job summary

Empower is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will operate, troubleshoot, and improve production data systems to ensure pipelines and analytics meet critical SLAs, working closely with data and platform engineers to resolve incidents and influence better designs.

Bring 5+ years of AWS data platform experience, strong Python/SQL, and a proven track record in data reliability,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with production data platforms in AWS environments.
• Experience building data pipelines and production exposure to failures and operational challenges.
• Strong Python and SQL in real data systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and stability of production data pipelines and data platform services.
• Diagnose and resolve data pipeline failures, delays, and data quality issues in production environments.
• Investigate issues across distributed data systems (e.g., Spark/EMR workloads, ingestion pipelines, warehouse performance).
• Lead or support incident response, including triage, mitigation, and long-term resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement durable fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Define and improve data SLAs (freshness, latency, completeness).
• Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability for data systems.
• Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve resilience.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and resiliency planning including backup validation.

Skills

AWS data platforms

Python

SQL

Incident response

Root cause analysis

Observability

Data reliability

Data pipelines

Tools

EMR

Redshift

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

Empower is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will operate, troubleshoot, and improve production data systems to ensure pipelines and analytics meet critical SLAs, working closely with data and platform engineers to resolve incidents and influence better designs.

Bring 5+ years of AWS data platform experience, strong Python/SQL, and a proven track record in data reliability,