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The ideal candidate is a current, hands-on data engineer who can build production data pipelines and cost-focused data products, improve their long-term maintainability, and clearly explain their technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nKey Responsibilities\n- Design, build, and maintain reliable end-to-end ELT and ETL pipelines in cloud environments.\n- Develop tooling and datasets for telemetry-driven cost attribution and performance-informed financial modeling.\n- Build and maintain pipelines and automation that provide cloud cost transparency, identify optimization opportunities, and support committed-use discount modeling and management.\n- Ingest and reconcile large-scale billing, usage, telemetry, and performance data from cloud platforms, APIs, and other sources.\n- Design and mature data models, schemas, and ingestion frameworks that support reliable downstream analysis and reporting.\n- Improve the maintainability, scalability, observability, and reliability of production data workflows.\n- Implement comprehensive data auditing, validation, reconciliation, and end-to-end quality controls.\n- Build and maintain REST API integrations and infrastructure automation.\n- Support CI/CD development processes and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.\n- Troubleshoot production pipeline failures, data inconsistencies, and performance issues.\n- Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Finance stakeholders to translate technical data into clear, actionable insights.\nMust-Have Skills\n- Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Spark, and Scala.\n- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as dbt, Airflow, and Dagster.\n- Hands-on AWS experience, including AWS Glue, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Athena. 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