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You'll be the fourth engineer on a growth analytics team of 11, working directly with sales enablement leadership. The team already ships weekly call...
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As a fully async team, we believe great engineers can work from anywhere, and our own internal tooling should be as good as what we build for clients...
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We build embedded analytics dashboards that live inside our clients' own products, and right now we have no idea which parts of those dashboards peopl...
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We serve engineering leaders at mid-size and large tech companies who want to understand where their developer tooling investments actually pay off. O...
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Posted 3 months ago
Junior AI Data Pipeline Documentation Generator Engineer
United States — Chicago (UTC-5)
Airflow DAGs and streaming jobs are the core of what we build, and right now understanding what any given pipeline actually does means reading raw cod...
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We're building the next generation of enterprise data governance tooling, and one gap keeps coming up in client reviews: nobody can say with confidenc...
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Unvix Works builds modern data pipeline infrastructure for enterprises migrating off legacy ETL tools. One of the messiest parts of any migration is r...
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Junior AI Data Pipeline Cost Attribution Developer
United States — New York (UTC-4)
A data platform team running 200 production pipelines often has no idea which pipelines are responsible for 80% of compute costs. Data pipeline cost a...
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Junior AI Data Pipeline Backfill Orchestration Developer
United States — Los Angeles (UTC-7)
When a data pipeline fails, the data for that time window doesn't just disappear — it needs to be recovered and processed to fill the gap. When a sche...
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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.
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Each listing links to the official application. Mention the warehouse and orchestration tools you match.
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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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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.
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