Remote Senior II Data Engineer Job in San Francisco, CA Zitara

Who you are

• Understand complex data and operations problems across multiple disciplines and apply software engineering methodology to attack them
• Make tactical decisions on scope and priority to effect a continuously-improving software system
• Proactively elicit requirements and feedback with cross-functional stakeholders and produce necessary documentation to ensure system changes meet operational needs and can be adopted
• Demonstrate professionalism and a commitment to best practices in a software engineering team
• Bachelors' in technical subject or equivalent proficiency
• 5+ years experience in industry data engineering
• 3+ years experience in one or more specialties: Time-series databases, automating data collection, storage, and validation, organizing and managing large, complex data sets, creating data and operations dashboards
• Proficiency in Python and SQL-based relational databases
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience shipping robust internal tools
• Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills
• Creative problem solving with limited resources and engineering constraints

Desirables

• Experience with ETL ELT or pipeline orchestration tools such as dbt Dagster and Airflow
• Experience in batteries IoT mechanical engineering electrical engineering
• Experience writing software tools to automate physical processes

What the job involves

• Design and implement data transformation and analysis pipelines for complex physical data sources
• Automate data capture from physical systems
• Assist with data entry and quality maintenance tools for lab and test engineering teams
• Interface with R&D teams and share responsibility for technology observability and scalability
• Jump into at least one or two specific well-defined projects immediately and help define future projects to streamline operations as the company grows