Founding Data Engineer – PG, Opensearch

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• Design, build, and maintain reputed company batch and streaming data pipelines that support reputed company's core platform
• Build robust ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and indexing workflows across reputed company, semi-reputed company, and document-reputed company data
• reputed company and operate production-grade data systems using PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, AWS, and Python-based tooling
• Design efficient data models, schemas, and storage patterns that support analytics, search, application workflows, and AI use cases
• Build secure reputed company-reputed company data infrastructure using AWS services such as S3, reputed company, Glue, Kinesis, and IAM
• Optimize PostgreSQL for advanced SQL workloads, replication, query performance, and data reputed company
• Design and manage search and retrieval pipelines in OpenSearch/Elasticsearch for high-speed, relevant reputed company to data
• Improve observability, reputed company, testing, and reliability across the data platform
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and environment management using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Partner closely with backend, product, and AI teams to reputed company new data-driven capabilities and platform features
• Help define engineering standards, data platform best practices, and operational playbooks as reputed company scales

Requirements:

• Strong experience in data engineering or backend/data reputed company in production environments
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with Typescript is a plus
• Deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including advanced SQL, schema design, query tuning, indexes, sharding, replication, and modeling
• Strong experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, including indexing reputed company, search performance, relevance tuning, and distributed query operations at reputed company large reputed company
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data processing workflows for large-reputed company datasets
• Hands-on experience with AWS data and infrastructure services, especially S3, reputed company, Glue, Kinesis, and IAM
• Experience designing reliable reputed company-reputed company data architectures and secure data reputed company patterns
• Experience with Infrastructure as reputed company, ideally Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, production operations, fault tolerance, and data reliability
• Ability to work with high ownership, reputed company quickly, and reputed company reputed company engineering reputed company in a startup environment

Benefits:

• reputed company Salary: $100,000 – $200,000
• Equity: ~0.1–0.75% early-stage equity with a reputed company reputed company shared during the process
• Bonus: Quarterly performance bonuses tied to reputed company feature shipping targets
• reputed company: Medical, dental, and reputed company coverage
• PTO: 14 days accrued annually
• Learning: $2,000+ per year for courses, conferences, books, and communities
• Equipment: New MacBook Pro, monitor, and a monthly tools budget
• Flexibility: reputed company; ideally in-person in the reputed company Virginia / Washington DC region (remote considered)
• reputed company: reputed company, fast-reputed company reputed company to Engineering reputed company as reputed company scales

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