Jellyfish

Jellyfish

Staff Data Engineer

Remote - US · Staff+

No sponsorshipDetected 29 days ago
PythonGitTerraformCI/CDAirflowData EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationJiraLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • About Jellyfish Jellyfish is rewriting the manual on how high-performing engineering teams actually work within an AI world.
  • We love to have fun and win in the process.

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and long-term technical direction, design and implementation of our data pipelines and integrations platform for storage, transformation and export at scale.
  • Drive integrations with third-party tools and establish the standards that make future integrations faster and more reliable
  • Own our infrastructure as code strategy using Terraform, and contribute to how we evolve our cloud data infrastructure
  • Lead the design and implementation of data export pipelines that serve diverse customer needs
  • Serve as a technical anchor - leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and elevating how the team approaches complex problems
  • Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap prioritization, cross-team dependencies, and org-wide technical strategy
  • Expert Python engineer with strong opinions about how to build reliable, maintainable systems at scale
  • Experienced with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.) and understand the unique infrastructure demands they create
  • A natural technical leader - you build consensus, unblock others, and make the engineers around you better
  • Exceptional communicator who can write a design doc, lead a review, and distill a complex tradeoff for any audience

Requirements

  • You have production experience with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster) and can make the hard architectural calls
  • Occasional travel may be required.

Nice to have

  • You've thrived at a rapidly scaling startup and know how to balance speed with technical rigor
  • You have hands-on experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
  • You've built deep integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems) and have strong opinions about how to do it well
  • You bring strong perspectives on how engineering teams work best - and the tools that help or hurt
  • Jellyfish is rewriting the manual on how high-performing engineering teams actually work within an AI world.
  • Ideally, you combine deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence architecture and direction across teams.

Benefits

  • Bonus points if:

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US.

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