Role overview

Data Engineer- Data Foundry Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain robust data pipelines to ingest from a wide range of sources, including APIs, documents, websites, and raw sensor data
  • Integrate and optimize ETL/ELT processes developed by MLE colleagues, improving performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
  • Own the full dataset lifecycle, from raw ingestion through cleaning, validation, and delivery as training-ready data
  • Define and enforce data quality standards and governance practices across the Data Foundry team
  • Build and maintain labeling pipeline infrastructure for ML applications, working closely with the annotation team
  • Participate in architectural decisions, code reviews, and technical mentorship within the team
  • Document data sources, pipeline logic, and processing decisions for reproducibility and team alignment

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering
  • Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical background
  • Solid understanding of the ML training lifecycle and what properties make a dataset suitable for model training
  • Familiarity with layered data architecture patterns such as Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) or Data Mesh
  • Proficiency in Python, with focus on data manipulation, pipeline development, and automation
  • Workflow orchestration using code-based tools such as Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or equivalent
  • Distributed data processing with Spark, Databricks, or similar
  • REST and gRPC API integration
  • Strong SQL skills, both for data modeling and query optimization
  • Experience with streaming systems and event-driven pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent)

Soft Skills

  • Comfortable jumping into ongoing codebases and optimizing work built by others, without needing to start from scratch
  • Technology-agnostic: you evaluate tools based on what the project needs, adopt new ones quickly, and don't get attached to a specific stack
  • At ease in fast-moving environments where priorities shift and the right answer isn't always obvious
  • Engineering-first mindset: you think in pipelines, own outcomes, and care about the quality of what you ship
  • Driven by curiosity and innovation, not by comfort with a known toolset

Nice to haves

  • Experience making architectural decisions and contributing to the technical growth of a team, formally or informally
  • Go, for high-performance pipeline components
  • dbt for transformation layer modeling
  • Open table formats: Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Hudi
  • Data quality frameworks such as Great Expectations or Soda
  • Cloud experience, preferably OCI (our current migration target). AWS, GCP, or Azure background is also valued
  • Rapid prototyping with Streamlit or similar tools. The use of LLMs and GenAI to speed up internal tooling and experimentation is actively encouraged
  • Experience with data annotation workflows or training dataset pipelines
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