[Hiring] Contractor: Senior Data Engineering Services @Newsela

Apr 05, 2025 - Newsela is hiring a remote Contractor: Senior Data Engineering Services. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Latin America (LATAM).

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Role Description

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Senior-Level Data Engineering Services.

Work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and respond to data inquiries.
Contribute to initiatives and assist in problem definition, scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints.
Utilize domain knowledge to develop documentation, participate in technical presentations, discussions, and incident reviews.
Build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling.
Establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases).
Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc).
Experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling.
Experience in managing data migrations in relational datastores.
Experience in optimizing SQL query performance.
Experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores align with expected business logic.
Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices.
Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks, and alerting on data systems and pipelines.
Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata.
Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP, and Terraform) is a plus.
Experience in document, graph, or schema-less datastores is a plus.

Requirements

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

Company Description

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Contractor: Senior Data Engineering Services @Newsela

Software Development

Salary 💸 unspecified	Remote Location Latin America (LATAM)
Job Type contract	Posted Apr 05, 2025

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📍	Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Latin America (LATAM)
‼	Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more.