Senior Data & Software Engineer: Scale Data Pipelines & AI

Avalore.ai; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Retirement plan (401k)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Disability insurance

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Avalore.ai is seeking a Data & Software Engineer to join a small team and build complex data flows for a custom application. You should have advanced Python, familiarity with Java, and a strong background in production data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data governance.

Key technologies include Apache Iceberg, Airflow, and AWS deployments. The role requires experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, data catalogs, and integrating AI/ML services.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience with data engineering and building production data pipelines.
• Experience with Apache Spark & PySpark in large-scale environments.
• Advanced Python skills including Pandas and NumPy.
• Experience deploying data pipelines with orchestration tools (Airflow, Spark Jobs).
• Containerization and cloud deployment using AWS.
• SQL and NoSQL databases, performance tuning and schema design.
• Experience with data catalogs, data lineage, and geospatial data.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with OpenLineage and Apache Iceberg.
• Experience with geospatial extensions like PostGIS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Resolve data quality issues, performance bottlenecks, and pipeline failures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and drive platform modernization efforts.
• Contribute to engineering docs, patterns, and best practices.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Pandas

NumPy

Data pipelines

Bash scripting

Tools

Docker

Podman

AWS S3

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

Apache Iceberg

Airflow

Apache Superset

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenLineage

H3

PostGIS

Trino

DynamoDB

Unity Catalog OSS

Apache Polaris

Job description

Avalore.ai is seeking a Data & Software Engineer to join a small team and build complex data flows for a custom application. You should have advanced Python, familiarity with Java, and a strong background in production data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data governance.

Key technologies include Apache Iceberg, Airflow, and AWS deployments. The role requires experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, data catalogs, and integrating AI/ML services.