Senior Data Engineer - Remote (EST)

Centro

21h • $150,000 - $170,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and build cloud-native data platforms centered around Snowflake, dbt, and modern orchestration frameworks. The role involves 60–70% data engineering and architecture and 30–40% backend, infrastructure, and systems design, including some frontend engineering to support full-stack delivery of data-driven features where appropriate.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering.
• Strong experience with dbt (modeling, testing, deployment, environment strategies).
• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar).
• Deep expertise with data warehousing platforms; e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, etc including performance tuning and RBAC.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python or Golang; advanced SQL.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven design, microservices, and data platform architecture.
• Experience with metadata management, lineage tools, and observability technologies (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong communication skills for leading architectural discussions across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice To Haves

• Salesforce integration experience.
• Experience in regulated industries.
• Experience managing infrastructure with Azure, esp. AKS

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable data pipelines and models using Snowflake and dbt.
• Design and operate orchestration using Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar.
• Define modeling standards, storage patterns, and performance strategies.
• Collaborate on backend APIs, services, integration layers, and limited frontend interfaces supporting data-driven features.
• Contribute to CI/CD, environment management, and automated pipeline delivery.
• Implement quality checks, lineage, SLAs, and observability.
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural best practices.
• Participate in system design and multi-team architectural planning.

Benefits

• health
• wellbeing
• retirement
• financial benefits
• paid time off
• overtime pay for non-exempt employees
• robust learning and development programs
• reimbursement of job-related expenses per the company policy
• employee perks and discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed