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You will design, develop, and operate large-scale data infrastructure in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where decisions affect vehicle production, global delivery, battery lifecycle, Supercharger network, Full Self-Driving development, and energy grid optimization.\n### What You’ll Do\nArchitect, build, and maintain state-of-the-art Enterprise Data Warehouse / Lakehouse solutions that serve both batch and near-real-time analytics use cases\nDesign and implement robust ETL / ELT pipelines using Python and Apache Airflow (or modern orchestration equivalents)\nDevelop and operate real-time data streaming and processing platforms using open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark Streaming / Structured Streaming, Flink, or equivalent\nMaintain platform health – Vertica, SQL Server, Airflow, Tableau etc\nHandle sensitive financial, production, and customer data systems while strictly adhering to SOX controls, segregation of duties, change management, and audit requirements\nPartner closely with business sponsors, product managers, manufacturing engineers, service operations, finance, and IT/security teams to gather requirements, scope projects, and deliver high-quality solutions quickly\nCommunicate complex technical concepts and business impact effectively through written documentation, verbal discussions, architecture diagrams, and executive-level presentations (360-degree communication)\nDefine, enforce, and continuously improve engineering standards, coding best practices, testing methodologies, CI/CD patterns, monitoring & alerting, and quality assurance processes\nActively participate in design reviews, code walkthroughs, and pull request reviews across the team\nStay current with evolving open-source technologies and recommend adoption when they provide meaningful differentiation or operational efficiency\n### What You’ll Bring\nExtensive years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, Backend Engineer, or ETL developer building large-scale data platforms\nSkilled with SQL, Python for data engineering (pandas, PySpark, SQLAlchemy, API Scrapping etc.)\nStrong Proficiency with database systems like Vertica, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, OpenSearch, etc. is required\nDeep hands-on experience designing and operating Airflow DAGs in production at scale\nProduction experience with at least one distributed streaming system (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming, Flink, Pulsar, etc.)\nSolid understanding of data modeling for analytical workloads \nExperience building and operating systems under SOX compliance or similarly regulated environments (change control, audit trails, separation of duties, etc.)\nStrong SQL skills and understanding of distributed query engines\nExperience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes / ECS) is required\nExcellent communication skills. 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