Engineering · Remote
Data Engineer
The Role
As a Data Engineer at Quaeris, you’ll build and optimize the data infrastructure that powers AI-driven analytics. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and customer teams to design scalable data pipelines, model enterprise data, and ensure reliable, high-quality access to information across diverse cloud platforms.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, building robust ETL/ELT processes, and enabling AI applications through well-structured, governed data.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and semi-structured data.
- Build and optimize data models that support analytics, reporting, and AI applications.
- Integrate data from enterprise systems, APIs, SaaS platforms, and cloud data warehouses.
- Optimize SQL queries and data processing workflows for performance and reliability.
- Implement data quality checks, validation frameworks, and monitoring to ensure data integrity.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to support new features and customer deployments.
- Develop reusable data ingestion frameworks and automation tools.
- Work with semantic models and metadata to improve data discoverability and governance.
- Ensure data security, compliance, and access controls align with enterprise standards.
- Troubleshoot production data issues and continuously improve platform reliability.
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering or a related software engineering role.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data engineering practices.
- Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, or Microsoft Synapse.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and database optimization.
- Experience integrating REST APIs and third-party data sources.
- Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
- Knowledge of dbt for data transformation and modeling.
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.
- Familiarity with Spark, PySpark, or distributed data processing frameworks.
- Experience working with Azure, AWS, or GCP data services.
- Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and security best practices.
- Exposure to AI/ML pipelines, feature engineering, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
What Success Looks Like
Within your first year, you will:
- Build reliable, scalable data pipelines that support enterprise analytics and AI workloads.
- Improve data quality, observability, and pipeline performance across the platform.
- Enable seamless integration with customer data ecosystems.
- Contribute reusable frameworks that accelerate customer onboarding and deployment.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver new data capabilities that drive customer value.
Why Join Quaeris?
- Help build the data foundation for enterprise AI and analytics.
- Work with modern cloud data platforms and large-scale datasets.
- Collaborate with a talented team focused on innovation, reliability, and customer success.
- Influence the architecture of an AI-native analytics platform from the ground up.
- Solve challenging problems at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and enterprise software.
Technologies You’ll Work With
- Python
- SQL
- dbt
- Apache Airflow / Dagster / Prefect
- Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Synapse
- Spark / PySpark
- Azure, AWS, GCP
- REST APIs
- Git & CI/CD
- Docker & Kubernetes
