Senior Python Data Engineer

Position

What you'll do

• Build reusable connectors for CRM, advertising, POS, client systems, and third-party APIs.
• Develop reliable ingestion pipelines and integration frameworks; own connector development through maintenance.
• Implement API integrations using REST, OAuth, API keys, pagination, and rate limiting.
• Manage schema evolution, mapping, transformation, and backward compatibility.
• Design ETL/ELT pipelines for large data volumes.
• Provide production logging, monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational dashboards.
• Coordinate client data onboarding with product, data strategy, client technical, and business teams.
• Resolve complex integration issues and improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Apply security, automation, documentation, testing, and code-quality practices; support architecture, modernization, and production operations.

Expertise you'll bring

• 6–10 years in data engineering, backend development, and data integration projects.
• Strong hands-on Python and backend engineering expertise.
• Experience with REST APIs, OAuth, API key management, pagination, and rate limiting.
• Experience building enterprise data connectors and integration platforms; expertise in ETL/ELT, ingestion frameworks, and data processing.
• Strong SQL skills for validation, transformation, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with orchestration platforms such as Apache Airflow, dbt, or similar.
• Understanding of connector lifecycle management, Git, schema evolution, metadata, data mapping, and backward compatibility.
• Experience with Datadog, ELK Stack, Grafana, or similar observability and monitoring tools.
• Hands-on Docker and containerized deployment experience.
• Strong analysis, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills; ownership and ability to deliver integrations on schedule.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package, quarterly growth opportunities, and company-sponsored education and certifications.
• Flexible work hours, employee engagement initiatives, annual health check-ups, and insurance coverage for employees and eligible family members.

Workplace

• The description states that Persistent supports hybrid work and flexible hours.

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