Data Engineer, AI & Distributed Systems
Zignal Labs- Location
- United States
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 120,000–140,000/yr
Posted 1mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Develop and operate batch and streaming pipelines for high-volume unstructured data
- Own pipeline components end to end from implementation through production monitoring
- Build and extend data pathways for NLP, LLM, and retrieval services
- Integrate with and tune search and vector stores for semantic search and real-time retrieval
- Implement and improve microservices and APIs for enterprise analytics
- Write clean, tested, and maintainable code
- Participate in code review, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Debug production issues and improve system reliability
- Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Product, and Security teams
Requirements
- 3+ years building and operating data pipelines in production
- Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or Kotlin
- Working proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark
- Hands-on experience with Kafka including consumer groups, offsets, and partitioning
- Practical AWS experience
- Comfort with Docker
- Ability to work in a Kubernetes environment
- Experience with workflow orchestrators like Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster
- Solid SQL skills
- Experience with at least one NoSQL or caching layer like Redis, MongoDB, or DynamoDB
- Sound CS fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Strong written communication skills for asynchronous work
Preferred
- Experience with Databricks or Delta Lake
- Experience with Flink or other stream-processing frameworks
- Experience with vector databases like Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, or pgvector
- Hands-on RAG or embedding pipeline work
- Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
- Experience parsing messy, unstructured, or multilingual text at scale
- Deep database performance tuning
- Experience with distributed consensus systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills
- Scala
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Airflow
- Prefect
- Dagster
- SQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
- Flink
- Pinecone
- Qdrant
- Milvus
- pgvector
- Elasticsearch
- OpenSearch
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