Data Engineer (temporary)

Applaudo Studios

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About The Position

Applaudo is hiring an experienced Data Engineer to build and maintain reliable ETL integrations between Zuora REST APIs and a GCP data warehouse. The role develops integration components using TypeScript/Node.js and Python, manages transformations for billing and revenue data, and supports accurate data movement across source systems and warehouse environments.

The engineer will work within an established architecture, codebase, development patterns, conventions, and CI/CD workflows. Responsibilities include pipeline monitoring and support, data-quality validation, troubleshooting failures and discrepancies, and collaboration with a distributed, async-first team through an established Agile/Kanban workflow. The role requires availability to overlap with Pacific Time, primarily from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. PT.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, integration development, or related roles.
• Production experience building ETL or data-integration pipelines using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Strong Python experience focused on data-pipeline development.
• Hands-on experience with GCP services, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.
• Experience integrating REST APIs using OAuth 2.0, pagination, error handling, and retry mechanisms.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with complex data warehouse schemas.
• Experience developing data-transformation logic and data-quality validations.
• Understanding of pipeline monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, and operational support.
• Experience working within established architectures, coding conventions, and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to onboard independently and become productive within an existing codebase.
• Strong written communication skills and an async-first collaboration style.
• Working English proficiency for daily collaboration with an international team.
• Availability to overlap with Pacific Time, primarily between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. PT.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Zuora REST APIs and ZOQL.
• Knowledge of the Zuora billing object model, including subscriptions, invoices, and payments.
• Experience using dbt or similar data-transformation frameworks.
• GCP Professional Data Engineer certification.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ETL pipelines between Zuora REST APIs and a GCP data warehouse.
• Develop and maintain integration components using TypeScript/Node.js and Python.
• Manage transformation logic for billing events, subscription lifecycles, invoices, payments, and revenue data.
• Work within the existing architecture, development patterns, conventions, and CI/CD workflows.
• Develop data pipelines using GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.
• Implement pipeline monitoring, alerting, error handling, retry logic, and data-quality controls.
• Write complex SQL validation queries to verify data parity between source data and warehouse tables.
• Collaborate with the Business Architect to implement data-validation requirements.
• Investigate pipeline failures, data discrepancies, and integration issues.
• Support accurate and reliable data movement across source systems and warehouse environments.
• Provide clear written updates and collaborate effectively within a distributed, async-first team.
• Participate in the established Agile/Kanban workflow.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed