# Senior Data Engineer

The Role We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build, operate, and continuously improve the data infrastructure that powers analytics and business intelligence across Tala's global markets. In this individual contributor role, you will take ownership of Tala's data synchronization pipelines, ensuring that data from our market-level databases is reliably captured, processed, and delivered to Snowflake for downstream analytics and business use. Our data infrastructure uses a modern AWS-based architecture, including AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3, and Snowflake. You will work across this ecosystem to ensure data is accurate, available, and delivered with minimal latency. Beyond maintaining existing pipelines, you will identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. You will also establish and monitor service level objectives (SLOs), strengthen testing and deployment practices, and lead root cause analysis when issues arise. This is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex distributed data challenges and takes ownership of production sys

- **Id**: 3766131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tala-senior-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T19:21:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:58:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4602
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Consumer Loans & Pawnshops, Microfinance

## Company

- **Id**: 1796572
- **Name**: Tala
- **Domain**: tala.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tala-co>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Hudi** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Blue-Green Deployment** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Terragrunt** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Glue** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **Presto** — Optional: yes
- **Trino** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:08:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 89
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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