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Data Engineer JN -062026-177253

Goodwin Recruiting

Location

Atlanta, GA

Salary

$140,000 - $160,000 /yearly

Type

fulltime

Posted

Today

via linkedin

Job Description

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Join a high-growth, data-driven environment where you’ll architect the foundation that powers analytics, search, and decision-making at scale. This is a hands-on, high-impact

Data Engineer

role focused on building systems the right way from the ground up.

Data Engineer Benefits And Compensation

  • Base salary: $140,000 – $160,000
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible hybrid or remote work (Eastern or Central time preferred)
  • Generous PTO and holiday schedule
  • Opportunity to build and influence data architecture at scale
  • High-visibility role with direct impact on business growth
  • Collaborative, fast-moving, and innovative team environment

Data Engineer

Requirements \& Qualifications – this is what will be prioritized during screening:

Must Haves

  • 6\+ years of experience in data engineering or backend-heavy engineering roles
  • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL including schema design, indexing, and performance tuning
  • Strong SQL skills across both transactional and analytical workloads
  • Proven experience designing or operating a data warehouse
  • Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines that feed analytics and search systems
  • Experience working with search technologies (OpenSearch or similar)
  • Ability to evaluate and apply the right data storage solutions based on workload and performance needs
  • Strong coding ability with willingness to work in JavaScript/TypeScript environments
  • Experience working with large-scale, messy, real-world datasets

What You’ll Actually Be Doing (day-to-day Impact)

  • Restructuring and optimizing PostgreSQL environments to separate OLTP and analytics workloads
  • Designing and implementing a scalable data warehouse and search architecture
  • Defining how data is distributed across operational databases, search systems, and analytical platforms
  • Building reliable, observable, and replayable data pipelines
  • Improving data quality through validation, deduplication, and anomaly detection
  • Making architectural decisions on data storage, migration, and system design
  • Serving as the technical authority on data architecture without direct people management
  • Leveraging AI tools to improve schema design, query performance, and data validation while ensuring accuracy and integrity

Data Engineer Preferred Background \& Skills

  • Experience migrating analytics and search workloads off production systems
  • Exposure to data observability and data quality tooling
  • Background in high-volume consumer platforms or marketplace data environments
  • Experience working with datasets at hundreds of millions to billions of records
  • Familiarity with document or columnar data stores and when to apply them
  • Strong sense of ownership with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset
  • Ability to balance performance, cost, scalability, and system complexity in decision-making

JOB ID

: 177253 #post

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