Hiring: Senior Data Engineer Company: Axial Search Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 19:21:48 Target Skills & Keywords : Airflow, BigQuery, Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, Microsoft Excel, Prefect, Python, Redshift, SQL, Scala, Snowflake, dbt About the job Experience: •5+ years of professional data engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production data systems at scale Required Skills: •Design and build scalable data pipelines and architectures that ingest, transform, and serve data reliably at scale •Own end-to-end data pipeline development, from requirements gathering through deployment and monitoring in production environments •Partner with data scientists, analytics teams, and product engineering to understand data needs and translate them into robust technical solutions •Lead data quality initiatives, including validation frameworks, testing strategies, and monitoring to catch issues before they reach downstream consumers •Optimize data infrastructure for cost, latency, and reliability; drive architectural decisions that anticipate future scale •Document data lineage, transformation logic, and operational runbooks to enable team knowledge sharing and reduce onboarding friction •Mentor junior engineers on data engineering best practices and code review contributions to raise technical standards across the team Qualifications: •Strong hands-on expertise with modern data stack tools—cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), orchestration platforms (Airflow, dbt, Prefect), and distributed processing frameworks •Proven ability to design and implement data architectures that balance performance, cost, and maintainability in high-throughput environments •Solid software engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, code review discipline, and ability to write production-grade code in Python, Scala, SQL, or similar languages •Track record of shipping production systems and maintaining them through operational incidents and scaling challenges Compensation: •$150,000 - $290,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!