Remote Sr. Data Engineer

Description:

• The Senior Data Engineer role at Varo involves designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to process data into and out of Varo’s Data Lake.
• The position requires working with AWS big data technologies such as EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, and RDS.
• The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining the data strategy for Varo to support the company's responsibilities as a regulated national bank.
• Providing technical leadership in data systems development, including data ingestion, curation, storage, high-throughput processing, and analytics.
• Collaborating with business partners on requirements, clarification, and results.
• Enforcing data security and access control policies, developing controls for a resilient data ingestion process, and supporting application data integration design efforts.
• Conducting code reviews in accordance with team processes and standards.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or a related field, or relevant work experience is required.
• 6-8 years of experience in data modeling, data pipelines, data lake, and data warehouse.
• 6+ years of programming experience in Python (consideration given to Java, Kotlin, C, C++).
• 6+ years of experience working within the AWS Big Data/Hadoop Ecosystem (EMR, Glue, Athena).
• Experience with other AWS components like Cloudwatch, EKS, KMS, Lambdas, S3 is a strong plus.
• Experience with downstream consumption patterns (reports, dashboards) is advantageous.
• Additional experience in Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Presto, REST/SOAP API, Spark2, Airflow is a plus.

Benefits:

• The salary range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 per year, with final offer amounts determined by multiple factors, candidate experience, and expertise.
• Varo recognizes that not all requirements may be met by every candidate and encourages those who meet most criteria and are eager to learn to apply.
• Varo is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and is committed to building teams with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.