Senior Data Engineer
About the Role Aura is hiring a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling data infrastructure. This is a high-impact role that involves end-to-end ownership of data pipelines, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and contributions to the foundation of Aura's analytics and ML workflows.
Role Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable data pipelines from raw ingestion to downstream analytics layers (including dashboards and ML features).
- Lead the development of new data infrastructure projects from scratch and own delivery through production.
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to ensure high data quality and stakeholder alignment.
- Establish and maintain robust monitoring and observability across the data stack.
- Optimize performance and cost across data workflows (e.g., query tuning, storage optimization).
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a related field.
- Advanced SQL skills and deep experience with modern data warehouses, especially Snowflake.
- Proficient in orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow.
- Experience with dbt for data modeling and transformation.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, ECS).
- Familiarity with version control, CI/CD workflows, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Preferred Experience
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience owning and delivering greenfield projects independently.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for cloud-based data infrastructure.
- Background in analytics or ML data preparation.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make decisions in lightly structured environments.
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