Senior Data Engineer - Remote

Overview

Instrumentl is a mission-driven startup helping the nonprofit sector to drive impact through a grant discovery and management tool. We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help scale and evolve our data platform.

In Short

• Design and scale our data platform including pipelines, models, and orchestration frameworks.
• Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting data from APIs, databases, and event streams.
• Define and implement systems for data ingestion, storage, processing, and transformation.
• Build and manage workflow orchestration using tools like Airflow.
• Build semantic layer as well as dashboards.
• Establish best practices for data modeling, testing, and quality.
• Partner with stakeholders to shape data requirements and enable BI and analytics use cases.
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost from day one.
• Apply software engineering principles (testing, CI/CD, modular design) to data infrastructure.

Requirements

• A min of 5+ years of software engineering experience with the last 2-3 years in data engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL.
• Proven experience building ETL/ELT pipelines end-to-end.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Deep understanding of the data lifecycle: ingestion → storage → processing → transformation → serving.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience supporting BI tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.).
• Familiarity with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).

Benefits

• 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents).
• Generous PTO, including parental leave.
• 401(k).
• Company laptop and home-office stipend.
• Bi-Annual Company retreats for in-person collaboration.