Data Engineer - Startup Experience
New York City, United States
4 applied
Full-time
$160 - 250 K/year
5-7 yrs
Posted on: Aug 28, 2025
Skills
python
pandas
etl
machine learning
startup
data engineering
About this role
You'll play a crucial role in building and maintaining our ETL infrastructure and pipelines, as well as optimizing ML systems for forecasting grocery demand. You’ll also work directly with our customers to ensure successful technical integrations.
Around 80% of your time will be spent on engineering:
Designing and implementing scalable data pipelines for processing large-scale data across multiple customers
Optimizing machine learning pipelines for demand forecasting
Contributing to our backend services to serve our mobile and web applications
Around 20% of your time will be spent on customer facing work:
Collaborating directly with customers' technical teams to ensure smooth data integrations and system implementations
Working with customers’ internal supply chain and store operations teams to understand and then implement their unique business logic
Experience :
Seniority
5+ years of experience as a software engineer at a startup or technical founder
Work experience
Experience writing data pipelines in Python and Pandas
Experience working with enterprise customers in traditional industries (e.g., grocery, healthcare, airlines)
Experience working at Palantir as a forward deployed engineer or some customer facing role
Education
Undergraduate degree in CS from a top school
Hard skills
Familiarity with data ingestion, transformation, and export workflows
Experience with data orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow)
Soft skills
Ability to understand and translate customer business operations into technical solutions
Proactive and comfortable working without highly structured specs
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