Data Engineer II

We’re looking for a Data Engineer II to help design, build, and continuously improve the GoGuardian Analytics and AI/ML ecosystem. This position sits on the Data Engineering team, a group responsible for building and maintaining the core data platform that powers analytics, product insights, and machine learning across the company. You’ll collaborate closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and other teams to enable the next generation of data-driven products and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize ETL pipelines that power analytics, data science, and ML workflows using tools such as Databricks, PySpark, and Airflow; Develop and maintain labeling and retraining pipelines for machine learning models, ensuring quality, reproducibility, and observability; Implement and support MLOps practices, including model versioning, CI/CD for ML, and model monitoring in production environments; Collaborate with data scientists to productionize and scale model training, inference, and evaluation pipelines; Contribute to the design and evolution of the data lakehouse, including schema design, partitioning strategies, and performance optimization; Document and communicate data architecture, lineage, and dependencies to ensure transparency and maintainability across teams; Champion data quality and governance, ensuring that datasets are accurate, well-structured, and compliant with organizational standards; Leverage infrastructure-as-code and containerization to build reproducible, maintainable environments; Participate in code reviews and continuous improvement of engineering best practices within the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; 2–4 years of experience building and operating large-scale data systems, ideally supporting analytics and ML workloads; Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience in PySpark, pandas, or similar data processing frameworks; Experience with DBT; Experience with modern data warehousing and lakehouse platforms; Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect; Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL design, and distributed data systems; Experience with AWS data and compute services (S3, Lambda, ECS, CloudWatch, etc.) or equivalent cloud platforms; Familiarity with MLOps concepts (e.g., feature stores, model registries, CI/CD for ML); Experience using Infrastructure as Code; Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills; comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

Databricks; Terraform

Benefits

Competitive pay; complete health insurance; 401(k) matching; employee equity plan; flexible time off; paid holidays; paid parental leave; paid year-end holiday break; professional growth and personal wellbeing benefits; work from home funds; fertility & adoption reimbursement