Jellyfish

Technology

StaffDataEngineer

$200–260k United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff Data Engineer at Jellyfish. Skills: Data infrastructure, Data pipelines, AI/LLM integrations. Define architecture and technical direction. Design data pipelines”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Complex problems; Architectural calls

Eligibility Requirements

Occasional travel, Authorized to work in US

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Expert Python engineer, Fluent in infrastructure as code, Production experience with workflow orchestration tools, Located in EST or CST time zone

Nice to Have

Thrived at a rapidly scaling startup, Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Experience with lakehouse architectures, Built deep integrations with developer tools, Perspectives on how engineering teams work best

What You'll Do.

Define architecture and technical direction

Design data pipelines

Implement data pipelines

Design integrations platform

Implement integrations platform

Drive integrations with third-party tools

Establish integration standards

Own infrastructure as code strategy

Evolve cloud data infrastructure

Architect workflow orchestration systems

Lead design of data export pipelines

Implement data export pipelines

Spearhead development of internal tooling

Develop agentic workflows

Elevate team's approach to problems

Partner with engineering leadership

Manage cross-team dependencies

Define org-wide technical strategy

Communicate technical decisions

Communicate tradeoffs

Communicate project status

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team dependencies; Org-wide technical strategy; Engineering leadership

Communication Scope

Technical decisions; Tradeoffs; Project status; Design doc; Technical writing

Process & Methodology

Roadmap prioritization

Full Job Description

About Jellyfish Jellyfish is rewriting the manual on how high-performing engineering teams actually work within an AI world. We're seeking a Staff Data Engineer who's passionate about building and scaling robust data infrastructure, defining integration patterns, and driving technical strategy across large-scale systems. Ideally, you combine deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence architecture and direction across teams. This is a high-agency role where you'll help shape not just what gets built, but how we build it — and raise the bar for the engineers around you.     What You'll Do - Define the architecture and long-term technical direction, design and implementation of our data pipelines and integrations platform for storage, transformation and export at scale. - Drive integrations with third-party tools and establish the standards that make future integrations faster and more reliable - Own our infrastructure as code strategy using Terraform, and contribute to how we evolve our cloud data infrastructure - Architect workflow orchestration systems for near-real-time and batch data processing, with a focus on reliability and scalability - Lead the design and implementation of data export pipelines that serve diverse customer needs - Spearhead development of internal tooling and agentic workflows that meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity across the org - Serve as a technical anchor — leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and elevating how the team approaches complex problems - Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap prioritization, cross-team dependencies, and org-wide technical strategy - Communicate clearly about technical decisions, tradeoffs, and project status to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders     About You - You have deep expertise building and scaling data pipelines, and a track record of owning complex data infrastructure end-to-end — not just contributing to it - AI - driven developer who dives deep into AI

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