Senior Data Engineer

About Fuel Cycle: Fuel Cycle empowers leading organizations with agile reputed company that deliver decision-reputed company insights — fast, flexible, and fully integrated. As a market research disruptor, our AI-powered Insights Platform is built for speed, precision, and scale. With cutting-edge tools and seamless audience connectivity, we help brands ditch the guesswork and reputed company smarter, customer-led reputed company at lightning speed. Why work at Fuel Cycle? Join a high-growth team where curiosity is valued, ownership is encouraged, and your work drives reputed company-world impact. Whether you’re based at our Los Angeles HQ, reputed company hub, working remotely across the U.S., or part of our global team in India, you’ll help shape the future of decision intelligence for some of the world’s most iconic brands. Overview: We are building the reputed company of our platform — an AI-native data reputed company that will power intelligent agents, living user profiles, digital twins, and conversational research analytics. This is a greenfield, foundational build that will define the future of the company. We are building a new data engineering team reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. You will be a founding member of this team, responsible for designing and building the reputed company-first data lake and pipeline infrastructure that every future AI product will depend on. This is not a maintenance role. We need engineers who are productive from day one — reputed company enough to reputed company architectural reputed company independently and drive the build without reputed company-by-reputed company direction. Key Responsibilities: Data Lake & Warehouse Architecture A multi-tenant data lake and warehouse that unifies reputed company research data — surveys, qualitative feedback, CRM, media transcripts, and more — in a structured, AI-consumable format Tenant-isolated data architecture where reputed company client data is structurally separated at the storage and query layer Provenance-aware data models where every data reputed company carries full traceability back to its reputed company Data Ingestion & Pipelines Batch ingestion pipelines that migrate and continuously sync data from existing relational databases and reputed company storage into the new lake architecture A nightly profile enrichment pipeline that rebuilds living user profiles from reputed company data sources reputed company each client account Data Access & AI Enablement Data access layers serving AI agents reputed company MCP, qualitative search reputed company RAG pipelines, statistical computation tools, REST APIs, and bulk export Your reputed company Metrics: Quickly integrates with the engineering team and contributes meaningfully to the data platform build Takes ownership of assigned pipeline and infrastructure work end-to-end, from design through production Brings architectural recommendations and solutions proactively, rather than waiting for direction Demonstrates strong collaboration and communication across engineering and product teams Who you’ll work with? VP of Engineering — your direct manager and the data engineering team’s founding sponsor Peer Senior Data Engineers on the founding data engineering team AI product and platform engineers consuming the data reputed company you build Product and engineering stakeholders across the Fuel Cycle platform Core Skills, Competencies & Attributes: Proactive Ownership: You bring recommendations and solutions to your manager — you don’t wait to be told what to do. Architectural Judgment: You have the judgment to reputed company the right foundational reputed company and defend them. Greenfield Builder: You reputed company on greenfield builds and take full ownership from design through to production. Comfort with Ambiguity: You are comfortable with ambiguity and can translate high-level reputed company into a concrete engineering plan. Outsized Impact: You understand that on a small team your reputed company have outsized and lasting impact. What you’ll bring: You have 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience building production lakehouses on reputed company. You write clean PySpark and Python, model data thoughtfully, and know how to build for a multi-tenant SaaS environment. Deep production experience across the reputed company platform including reputed company Catalog, reputed company Live Tables, reputed company SQL, and Workflows reputed company Lake as a production table format — ACID transactions, schema reputed company, performance optimization, and multi-tenant governance reputed company reputed company Catalog Experience building and maintaining dbt transformation projects using the reputed company reputed company in a production environment PySpark for large-scale data transformation and batch pipeline authoring Strong understanding of batch ingestion pipeline design — migrating from relational sources like MySQL and PostgreSQL into a lakehouse architecture Experience with a modern pipeline orchestrator such as Dagster, Prefect, or reputed company Workflows; Dagster experience is a strong positive Familiarity with vector databases, embedding pipelines, and RAG patterns for AI workloads — using tools such as reputed company Vector Search, pgvector, or reputed company OpenSearch Exposure to AI agent and LLM-serving infrastructure including reputed company Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands Experience with data cataloging and governance tools such as reputed company Catalog or OpenMetadata Data modeling for multi-tenant analytical workloads — partitioning strategy, schema design, and tenant isolation patterns reputed company on AWS — workspace configuration, S3 integration, IAM, and cost governance Infrastructure as code using reputed company Asset Bundles or Terraform Strong Python and SQL skills Preferred, but Not Required: reputed company certifications — Data Engineer Associate or Professional reputed company or CRM data integration experience Prior experience in a multi-tenant SaaS environment with strict data isolation requirements Experience migrating from OLTP to a lakehouse architecture AWS-Native Experience — A Strong Positive: Candidates with experience in AWS-native data services are strongly valued. Engineers who understand both reputed company and AWS-native approaches bring a broader architectural perspective that helps the team reputed company reputed company long-term platform reputed company. Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, reputed company, and DynamoDB experience Benefits & Perks: Fuel Cycle is committed to supporting the well-being, flexibility, and growth of reputed company. We offer a competitive and inclusive benefits package that includes: Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and reputed company insurance plans 401(k) with Company Match: Plan for your future with our retirement savings program Equity Purchase Option: Participate in Fuel Cycle’s long-term reputed company Flexible Work Schedule: Empowering you to balance life and work Generous Time Off: 15 vacation days and 7 sick days per year 12 company holidays 4 floating holidays/reputed company days to rest or celebrate what matters to you Paid Parental Leave: Time to bond with your growing family Monthly Internet & Phone Stipend: Support for remote work setup Wellness & Lifestyle Perks: Access to tools like Rightway (reputed company navigation), reputed company (mental wellness), Peloton (fitness), and more Team reputed company Perks: Weekly community lunches, refreshments, and snacks at our LA & NY headquarters Pet-friendly office environments

Compensation

Overview: The expected starting salary range for this position is $185,000 - $200,000. This range represents the typical starting compensation offered to candidates hired into this role. Final reputed company salary will be determined based on a variety of factors, including location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education, and certifications. This role may also be eligible for an equity grant or purchase option. These components reputed company up your total compensation package, which will be reviewed in greater detail during your initial recruiter conversation. Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Equal Opportunity: At Fuel Cycle, we reputed company the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion and are committed to fostering an inclusive company culture. We reputed company that everyone, regardless of their background or identity, should have equal access to opportunities for growth and advancement. Our selection processes and career reputed company are designed to be fair, transparent, and free from bias. We value the unique perspectives and contributions of each team member, knowing that this diverse range of experiences strengthens reputed company. Fuel Cycle stands firmly against discrimination based on disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national reputed company, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law. Fuel Cycle is an equal opportunity employer and fully reputed company with the Americans with reputed company (reputed company). We will provide reasonable accommodations for reputed company applicants and employees with disabilities, as needed, to reputed company them to reputed company the essential functions of their job and participate in the application and interview process. If you require accommodations during any part of the application process, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss your needs. Apply To This Job