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Have you ever wanted to build the platform other data teams build on top of, instead of shipping one more one-off pipeline? Our data mesh architecture...
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You'll be the fourth data engineer on a team of eleven, working directly with the on-call rotation lead. We already have solid pipeline observability,...
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Every AI system starts with a data pipeline
Data engineers build and run the systems that move, clean and model data: ingestion, ETL and ELT pipelines, warehouses and lakehouses, streaming, and the quality checks that make analytics and machine learning trustworthy. AI has made the role more important, not less — models are only as good as the data that reaches them.
The roles below come from data infrastructure companies, AI labs and product teams. They range from analytics engineering (SQL, dbt, modelling for analysts) to platform work (Spark, Kafka, orchestration, cost and reliability at scale). Read each listing to see which side it leans to.
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Data engineering pays close to software engineering, with a premium for streaming, platform and ML-data experience. Each listing shows the range the employer published.
Describe pipelines you own
Volume, sources, freshness, failure handling. "Ingests 2 TB/day from 40 sources with 15-minute freshness" says more than a tool list.
Show data quality habits
Tests, contracts, monitoring and alerting. Teams hire data engineers who prevent bad data, not only move it.
Apply on the employer's page
Each listing links to the official application. Mention the warehouse and orchestration tools you match.
Profile guide
How to stand out as a data engineer
Not all profiles get responses. These are the signals that separate candidates who get interviews from those who don't.
SQL and data modelling
Dimensional models, dbt, clear and fast SQL — the base of every data engineering interview.
Orchestration
Airflow, Dagster, Prefect: scheduling, retries, backfills and dependencies done right.
Streaming
Kafka, Flink or Spark Streaming experience is rarer and better paid.
Cloud warehouses
Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift — including cost control.
Data for ML
Feature pipelines, training datasets, embeddings and vector stores connect data engineering to AI teams.
Reliability
SLAs, lineage, incident handling. Pipelines that run quietly for months are the goal.
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FAQ
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Everything you need to know before applying for your first data engineer role.
A data engineer builds the systems that collect, move, clean and store data so analysts, products and machine learning models can use it — pipelines, warehouses, streaming and data quality checks.
Analytics engineers focus on modelling data inside the warehouse for analysis, mostly with SQL and dbt. Data engineers usually own ingestion, infrastructure and platform reliability. Many listings mix both.
SQL and Python first, then a cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster), dbt, and for platform roles Spark or Kafka.
Yes. AI teams depend on training data, feature pipelines and retrieval data. Data engineers who understand ML data needs move naturally into ML platform and AI infrastructure roles.
Yes. Profiles, browsing and applying are free, with no cut of your salary.
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