Horizon3ai

Federal Senior Data Engineer

US, Remote. Posted 29 days ago

The role

You will design, build, and own the data platform and business-critical pipelines. This includes expanding a globally deployed data platform with a focus on Federal workloads.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and maintain business-critical data pipelines
  • Build and operate core data infrastructure including data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform
  • Evaluate and shape warehouse strategy including lakehouse platforms
  • Define and evolve batch or event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams
  • Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models
  • Build observability into pipelines and platform components
  • Drive work across producer and consumer teams

Required qualifications

  • Strong software engineering craft
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and data architecture
  • Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills
  • Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end
  • Strong collaboration and ownership across dependent teams
  • Experience and ability to work within US Government enclaves from FedRAMP through TS cloud environments
  • 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with cloud-based data platforms and distributed data processing (e.g., AWS Glue, Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark-based pipelines)
  • Tableau or a comparable BI platform
  • SQL and Python
  • Workflow orchestration tooling such as Apache Airflow, Dagster or similar

Benefits

  • equity package in the form of stock options
  • health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
  • flexible vacation policy
  • generous parental leave

Before you apply

  • US Citizen with/ability to gain and maintain a TS Security clearance

About the company

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find and fix exploitable attack vectors. Their flagship product is the NodeZero platform.

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