Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

RemoFirst empowers employers to be free from geographical boundaries when accessing talent, allowing employees to pursue opportunities wherever they may exist. We are on a mission to be the FIRST to revolutionise the industry and be a truly generational company.

Our platform offers a full range of people management tools, employee benefits like health insurance, and financial benefits, enabling clients to hire anyone from anywhere with one click. RemoFirst manages employees and contractors for Fortune 500 companies (e.g., Microsoft, Mastercard) and the best startups worldwide (e.g., TransferGo). 

We are one of the fastest-growing private companies in the USA, recently at 85th position on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2025. Backed by $40+M in venture funding, we are scaling rapidly and investing heavily in AI-driven solutions to supercharge our operations.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate a scalable, cloud-native data platform that supports both analytics and AI-driven use cases. This role goes beyond traditional data warehousing .You will work closely with AI engineers to build the data foundation that powers LLM applications, agent-based systems and RAG solutions.

You will be responsible for building reliable data pipelines, developing curated data models and products, and ensuring high-quality, trusted data is readily available for analytics and AI workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines using modern data engineering tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Prefect).
• Develop and maintain dimensional and semantic data models to support analytics and operational use cases.
• Build curated data products that support analytics and modern AI workloads.
• Design data schemas and storage strategies optimized for both analytical and AI workloads.
• Build and maintain version control workflows and isolated development/test environments.
• Manage and optimize cloud-based data infrastructure ensuring performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of the organization's modern data platform.
• Collaborate closely with AI, Analytics, and Product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering with proven delivery in production environments.
• Strong expertise in building scalable data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools such as dbt, Airflow, Prefect, or similar.
• Strong experience with dimensional data modeling and semantic data models.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including services such as S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, and Lambda.
• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating modern data infrastructure, including storage, compute, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with modern AI architectures and the data requirements for LLMs, AI agents and RAG applications.

What we are looking for

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Ability to translate evolving business, analytics and AI requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Effective communicator who collaborates well across Data, AI, Product, and Engineering teams.
• A senior engineer who balances architectural thinking with hands-on execution.

Benefits

• Startup environment: RemoFirst is an early-stage startup. You have a voice that can influence, and grow rapidly. An opportunity to build a tech unicorn. 
• Growth opportunity: This is a chance to join an AI-forward company driving innovation through artificial intelligence. As Senior Product Owner, you’ll lead product initiatives that deliver strategic impact.
• Direct impact: Your work will be at the center of how we grow revenue, support customers, and differentiate in the market.
• Autonomy and Accountability: We value autonomy and accountability — there’s no bureaucracy or lengthy approval process. We prioritize speed and results to keep moving forward effectively.
• Work for a Market Leader: Scale a project that counts market-leading companies like Microsoft, Mastercard, and more as happy customers. 
• Leadership visibility: Reporting into the Data Lead which means your projects will be strategic and business-critical.
• Compensation and perks are great: Competitive compensation and 100% remote work. 
• Culture: You will get to work with some of the best colleagues coming from top tech companies. We lead with respect, kindness, and the right to fail. We value hard yet smart work. Diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA.  As we grow and evolve, we welcome your input to help us define our culture further.