fairlife

fairlife

Senior Data Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior

No sponsorship$110k-$125kDetected 18 hours ago
PythonCode ReviewGitSQLDatabricksAzureCI/CDDevOpsSparkData EngineeringRAGKQLERPRecruitingTest AutomationCommunication

About the role

  • To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com. job purpose: The Sr.
  • This position requires current authorization to work in the United States.
  • Base pay range: $110,000 - $125,000 USD fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operationalize batch and streaming data pipelines that integrate enterprise and factory data sources (ERP, IIoT, SaaS applications, APIs) into our lakehouses
  • Support development and maintenance of dimensional data models (star schemas) in our lakehouses that deliver consistent, well-governed metrics to the business
  • Build reusable frameworks and shared Python libraries (ingestion patterns, incremental loads, telemetry, alerting) that accelerate the whole team, not just one project
  • Own the engineering lifecycle end to end: Git branching, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, automated testing, and environment promotion
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions for reliability, performance, and cost, building data quality validation and pipeline observability into solutions from the start
  • Partner with stakeholders across manufacturing and business functions, translating their needs into well-designed solutions and communicating to non-technical audiences
  • Document, share, and support the technical growth of fellow team members
  • Expert-level SQL and strong Python (building shared libraries and frameworks, not just scripts)
  • At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing.
  • fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

Requirements

  • skills/qualifications required:
  • Experience with manufacturing/factory data (MES, historians, IIoT streaming) a plus

Nice to have

  • Contribute to our growing AI-facing platform capabilities, including semantic search indexes, AI-ready data interfaces, and agent tooling
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of data engineering experience (manufacturing/CPG preferred)
  • hands-on Spark/PySpark for large-scale transformation
  • Strong grounding in data warehousing and dimensional modeling (star schemas, Kimball)
  • Proficiency with Azure data services such as SQL databases, Event Hubs, Functions, Data Factory, Key Vault, and Microsoft Entra

Skills

  • Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Compensation

  • $110,000 - $125,000 USD

Company info

  • In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company.
  • At this time, we are not reviewing or expanding that list.

Equal opportunity

  • fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
  • All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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