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Senior Data Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Engineer
Prolific
• Build and maintain data pipelines that power analytics, ML workloads, and product-facing applications • Evolve our data platform alongside cloud platform engineers • Design and implement scalable data infrastructure • Develop data services and APIs that expose trusted data to product applications • Own data quality and observability • Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams • Uphold strong data privacy, security, and compliance practices • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of data flows, models, and systems
Job Requirements
- 3+ years building and shipping production grade data systems
- Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language (Java, Scala etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure (Terraform, Kubernetes)
- Experience designing data APIs or services
- Thoughtful approach to data quality, privacy, and security
- Strong collaboration skills
- Hands on experience with data pipeline tools (Airflow, dbt)
- Commitment to continuously improving product quality
- Meticulous approach to creating and maintaining architecture and systems documentation
- Ability to work across teams to understand diverse data needs
- Exceptional analytical skills for troubleshooting complex data issues
- Capability to ship medium features independently
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Remote working options
- Access to our unique human data platform
- Opportunities for groundbreaking research
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