Sayari
Senior Data Engineer
Remote - US · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$160kDetected 39 days ago
PythonScalaCode ReviewBigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftGCPKubernetesMachine LearningSparkAirflowData EngineeringRoadmappingCommunication
About the role
- About Sayari: Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk.
- The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce.
- Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python, Spark, and Airflow to support our core data acquisition and entity resolution engines.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with AI/ML and Product teams to implement new features and AI-native products.
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in our complex ETL processes, bringing a fresh perspective to refine and optimize our existing codebase.
- Contribute to a robust engineering culture through rigorous code reviews, unit testing, and clear communication of design decisions.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of roadmap tasks within two-week sprints, ensuring work meets high standards for quality, documentation, and performance.
- Participate in roadmap planning and story refinement, eventually taking ownership of major epics that drive our long-term product defensibility.
- A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source.
Skills
- 5 or more years of production data engineering experience, with clear ownership of systems you built and operated end to end
- Strong Python, with meaningful experience in a JVM language (Scala preferred) or willingness to ramp quickly
- Hands-on Snowflake experience, or equivalent depth in BigQuery or Redshift with demonstrated ability to transfer
- Orchestration experience with Apache Airflow or a comparable workflow tool
- Track record of operating production systems reliably, with comfort navigating failure, monitoring, and recovery
- Experience with Spark on Dataproc Serverless or other serverless Spark environments
- Familiarity with Kubernetes for deployment
- Experience with data quality tooling such as deequ, Great Expectations, or equivalent
- GCP experience (BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage)
- Experience leading or contributing to a data warehouse migration
- Background in team mergers or migrating a team onto a new operating process
Compensation
- $140,000 - $160,000 USD
Benefits
- 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
- Generous time off
- we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
- A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply.
- We believe diversity and inclusion mean our team members should reflect the diversity of the United States.
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