Data Engineer

Summary

Join Doowii's Engineering team as a Data Engineer to architect, build, and scale the data infrastructure powering our education-focused data platform. You will own ingestion pipelines, design and maintain data models, build robust CI/CD, and optimize storage and query performance. Collaboration with ML, product, and frontend engineers is key to delivering AI-driven features. Champion data quality, governance, and privacy best practices. We offer competitive compensation, equity grants, open PTO, comprehensive benefits, a mission-driven culture, and remote work eligibility.

Requirements

• 3+ yrs building production data pipelines on GCP, AWS, or Azure (GCP preferred)
• Hands-on with at least two of: Kafka or Pub/Sub, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Mage.AI , Beam, Spark, Flink, dbt, Iceberg/DuckDB/ClickHouse
• Strong SQL + Python; Java a plus
• Experience with schema evolution, CDC, and high-throughput streaming
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform) and container orchestration (K8s or Cloud Run)
• Bias for automation, clear documentation, and fast iteration in a startup environment

Responsibilities

• Own ingestion pipelines (NiFi 2.0 → Kafka → Iceberg → BigQuery/Motherduck) end-to-end
• Design and maintain data models (star, wide-table, or Iceberg-native) to support real-time and batch analytics
• Build robust CI/CD, testing, and observability for data flows (GitHub Actions, dbt tests, OpenMetadata, Sentry)
• Optimize storage + query performance; keep infra costs lean
• Partner with ML, product, and frontend engineers to ship AI-driven features (LLM text-to-SQL, embeddings, feature stores, LLM-driven data modeling)
• Champion data quality, governance, RBAC/RLS, and privacy best practices (FERPA, GDPR)

Preferred Qualifications

• EdTech or SaaS analytics background
• Knowledge of LLM evaluation, vector stores, or semantic layers
• MotherDuck or DuckDB experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• New-hire equity grant
• Open PTO policy & company holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• A mission-driven culture and community
• Goal-setting, regular performance reviews, career-focused conversations, and internal trainings
• Remote-work eligible