GCP Data Engineer

GCP Data Engineer — Denver, CO (Hybrid, 2 days onsite/week) We are hiring an experienced, hands-on GCP Data Engineer for a contract role based in Denver, CO. This role requires onsite presence 2 days per week — local candidates or those willing to relocate at their own expense only. We are specifically looking for engineers with real, professional production experience — not bootcamp or self-taught candidates representing themselves as experts. Screening will include a live, unscripted technical discussion; candidates who cannot speak in depth about their own project work will not move forward. Required (must have hands-on, production experience with all of the following): BigQuery — partitioning, clustering, cost/query optimization Dataflow (Apache Beam) — batch and streaming pipeline design Pub/Sub for event-driven ingestion Cloud Composer (Airflow) for orchestration IAM, VPC networking, and data security best practices on GCP Terraform or equivalent IaC for GCP infrastructure SQL and Python at a production engineering level Interview process (by design, to protect against misrepresented experience): Screening questions below (auto-filtered)Live video technical interview — camera on, no notes/scripts, real-time problem solvingOnsite/in-person final round in Denver Please note: submissions with unverifiable employment history, unwillingness to do a live camera-on technical round, or third-party "consulting" submissions without direct candidate contact will be rejected without review. #J-18808-Ljbffr Socket