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Lead Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
126 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Data Engineer
Launch Potato
• Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth. • Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business • Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units • Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth • Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows • Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity • Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support • Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
- Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
- Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
- Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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