Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Data Engineer (Databricks) — U.S. Citizens Only
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Affintus is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their experienced engineering team building scalable data platforms for mission-driven programs. The role involves designing and operating modern data pipelines, optimizing distributed processing workloads, and maintaining secure, production-grade data systems in the cloud.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize large-scale data pipelines using Databricks and Spark
- Build reliable data workflows to ingest, transform, and serve complex datasets
- Develop and maintain data models that support analytics and downstream use cases
- Automate infrastructure and data workflows using Infrastructure as Code
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and support production data jobs
- Implement arenaflex/CD workflows for data pipelines and processing code
- Ensure data systems meet security, reliability, and performance standards
- Work with containerized services where appropriate
- Participate in Agile delivery and continuous improvement efforts Skills
- U.S. Citizenship + U.S. residence
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend data infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, or distributed data processing in production
- Strong proficiency with Python and PySpark
- Experience with data modeling and schema design
- Familiarity with orchestration and transformation tools (Airflow, dbt, or similar)
- Experience working in cloud environments (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable)
- Working knowledge of arenaflex/CD pipelines and version control workflows
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Comfort monitoring, debugging, and scaling cloud-based data systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote team
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Familiarity with Docker and containerized workloads
- Exposure to Kubernetes or workload orchestration tools
- Experience with lakehouse architectures or arenaflex Lake
- Background supporting regulated or public-sector programs
- Active or prior security clearance
- Databricks certification Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Remote-first work environment
- Health benefits + PTO
- Retirement plan with company contribution
- Bonus opportunities
- Growth and learning support Company Overview
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