# Senior Data Engineer — AI-Native Data Platform

Aarden is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve its core datasets and the pipelines that keep them current. The role focuses on operating and improving the data platform, ensuring data quality, and partnering with product and analytics teams on datasets and intelligence products. Responsibilities Own the day-to-day reliability and operation of our data infrastructure, including S3, Iceberg, Postgres, Lambda, PMTiles, and raster datasets Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve pipeline performance, observability, and data quality Extend existing pipelines to support new data sources and transformations Use automation and AI-assisted workflows where they make operations more reliable or efficient Work with product to build datasets that support new features Co-develop intelligence products with the analytics team Keep pipeline and dataset documentation useful and current Stay current on data and geospatial technologies relevant to our stack. Identify opportunities to improve it, run focused experiments, and recommend changes when the benefits justify the tradeoffs Skills Owned the operation of one or more production data pipelines for a continuous period of at least 12 months

- **Id**: 3948837
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aarden-senior-data-engineer-ai-native-data-platform>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T22:38:19Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:38:19Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2744
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Document AI, Legal Software

## Company

- **Id**: 9766
- **Name**: Aarden
- **Domain**: aarden.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aarden>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **GDAL** — Optional: no
- **PostGIS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prefect** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T00:21:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T01:44:41Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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