Staff Data Engineer

Job Description

Staff Data Engineer

Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Monday–Thursday onsite, Friday remote

We’re partnering with a hospitality technology company to find a Staff Data Engineer to help build and improve a cloud-based data platform supporting thousands of hotel properties. The platform handles reservation, guest, rate, and operational data used across the business.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys building data systems while helping shape the architecture behind them. You’ll work across multiple initiatives, guide technical decisions, and mentor senior engineers. This position has no direct reports.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and improve data pipelines and distributed processing solutions using AWS, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
• Help define the platform’s architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction.
• Improve scalability, performance, reliability, and monitoring across data systems.
• Partner with engineering teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on problem solving.
• Support automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code practices.

What we’re looking for:

• 8+ years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
• Experience designing cloud data platforms, distributed systems, and data warehouse solutions.
• A track record of owning complex technical projects and guiding architecture decisions across teams.
• Experience improving production systems through monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to different audiences.
• Experience with generative AI is a plus.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.