Data Engineer

  • Urbandale, IA
  • Posted 10 days ago | Updated 10 days ago

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2

Skills

SQL
Python
AWS

Job Details

Position Title : Data Engineer
Location: Urbandale, IA
Remote role On W2

Primary Roles:

  • Develop features and provide support for the Ground Speed Automation product
  • Create and update APIs and backend processes running on AWS Lambda
  • Write Python code to query from PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases
  • Analyze data using SQL and Pyspark
  • Create and maintain updates to AWS resources
  • Integrate backend processes with existing APIs

Supporting Roles:

  • Provide support to field testing and customer support operations related to data generated by the pipeline
  • Provide support to data scientists building models and doing analysis based on the existing data pipeline and product testing results
  • Work closely with the product management team and end users to understand customer experience and system requirements

Initial work:

  • 1 week of onboarding - verify security, install software, technical overviews
  • Work with senior engineer to improve system scalability, integrate image analysis ML models into pipeline
  • Migration of CI/CD pipelines to Github Actions
  • Improve Datadog monitoring and alerting for multiple systems

Required Skills:

  • Experience requirements - at least 3 - 5 years of experience with SQL, Python and cloud computing (AWS preferred)
  • Languages and Frameworks: Python, SQL
  • Core understanding of AWS services including IAM, Lambda, S3, RDS
  • Other: Docker, containerization concepts, REST API concepts (calling REST APIs using Python)

Additional Skills:
PostGIS or general GIS experience, MLOps (Sagemaker or MLflow), Terraform, Github Actions, Datadog, Databricks, REST API development in Python

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