Senior Data Engineer

Carefeed • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Carefeed is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to build our data infrastructure and developer tooling. You’ll lead the design and implementation of our data infrastructure, help build tools to make our development teams happier and more productive, and build the underlying technology for powerful data-oriented products. This role is ideal for a data engineer who wants to take the next step into infrastructure management. Your biggest initial project will be to design and build a central data lake for use in 2026, as well as any pipelines (SQS, Kafka, etc) needed to populate it. As the first data engineer at Carefeed, you will lead both tooling and design decisions and the implementation of those decisions. This role will be a part of our Infrastructure team, and you’ll also occasionally work on typical infrastructure jobs such as observability and deployments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Significant experience operating data infrastructure such as ETL pipelines, data warehouses and visualization tools.
• Experience with writing SQL, standing up an event stream, and monitoring the health of DBT jobs.
• Familiarity with AWS, specifically ECS and Aurora.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Comfortable working independently and owning complex problems from start to finish.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate Carefeed’s core data infrastructure, with an eye towards simplicity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Create tools and resources for application development teams to build incredible products on top of Carefeed’s data.
• Drive safe and effective data management practices while also contributing to engineering team productivity.
• Respond to production incidents, contribute to blameless postmortems, and continuously improve system reliability.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and business operations teams as a data systems expert.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to support your health and well-being.
• 401(k) plan to help you plan for the future.
• Paid vacation, sick time, and company-paid holidays to support work-life balance.
• A culture that values growth and development, with opportunities to grow your career as we scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees