Senior Data Engineer

🕒 October 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $119.5k - $164.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and deploy data and AI/ML systems on AWS end-to-end, including data lake pipelines, observability instrumentation, and optimization for performance, reliability, and cost • Maintain and evolve production platforms, monitor for drift, debug issues, and drive improvements to reliability and scalability • Use AI-forward coding tools such as Claude and Cursor to ship higher-quality work • Partner with AWS Professional Services, client engineering, and data teams • Translate technical tradeoffs, system behavior, and constraints for non-specialists • Participate in code reviews and design discussions • Contribute to data and AI architecture decisions • Own meaningful work end-to-end and support more junior engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years professional software or data engineering experience, with 2+ years building data platforms or AI/ML systems in production on AWS • Strong software engineering background (Python and SQL, or similar) • AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate; candidates without it are considered if there is a clear, near-term path to earning it • Hands-on experience building data lakes on AWS, including S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, and Iceberg or Parquet • Exposure to streaming on Kinesis or MSK • Experience with observability for distributed and AI systems, including CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Grafana, and drift monitoring with SageMaker Model Monitor • Working knowledge of agent enablement on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, RAG patterns, and Bedrock Agents • Experience shipping agentic or ML systems in production environments • Experience with MLOps and LLMOps practices, including evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of models and agents • Experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, and CI/CD for data and AI systems • Understanding of IAM and KMS security, data governance, responsible AI principles, and PII handling • Cost optimization experience across storage, query, compute, and model usage • Experience delivering solutions in a consulting or professional services setting, working alongside client and partner teams • Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and knowledge of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguous technical challenges with sound judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k)