Sr Data Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Data Engineer

Location: Glendale, CA Onsite

Job Type: C2C

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain, update, and expand existing core data platform pipelines.
• Build and maintain APIs to expose data to downstream applications.
• Develop real-time streaming data pipelines.
• Work with technologies including Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Snowflake.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to ensure platform success.
• Develop and document internal/external standards, best practices, and pipeline configurations.
• Ensure high operational efficiency and data accuracy to meet SLAs and reliability standards for stakeholders (Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and Analytics teams).

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of data engineering experience developing large-scale data pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Python, Java, or Scala).
• Hands-on experience with distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark.
• Production-level experience with data pipeline orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
• Expertise in at least one Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
• Experience in data modeling and API development using GraphQL.
• Advanced understanding of OLTP vs. OLAP environments.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have):

• Experience with Graph Databases.
• Real-time event streaming expertise.