[Remote] Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alt is unlocking the value of alternative assets, focusing on the trading-card market. They are seeking a Data Engineer to own critical data infrastructure, ensuring accurate data delivery for pricing decisions and market analytics.
Responsibilities
- Design, optimize and own data pipelines that scrape, process and ingest transaction and listing data from major auction houses and marketplaces
- Build comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to track latency, uptime, and coverage metrics across all data sources
- Continuously improve our data infrastructure by modernizing storage and processing technologies, reducing manual interventions, and optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability
- Partner with internal teams to understand data usage patterns and ensure pipelines deliver clean, standardized data that meets product requirements
Skills
- 3-4 years of experience in data engineering or related fields
- Strong Python proficiency with at least 3 years of hands-on experience
- Proven experience with large-scale data processing using dataframe technologies (Pandas, Polars, PySpark, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar DAG-based systems)
- Track record of owning at least one data pipeline end-to-end within the past 2 years
- Solid SQL skills for data analysis and transformation
- Previous startup experience - you understand the pace and adaptability required in a fast-moving environment
- A pragmatic mindset focused on delivering value incrementally rather than pursuing perfection
- Experience with web scraping technologies (Selenium, Puppeteer, Beautiful Soup)
- Familiarity with data infrastructure and cloud services (AWS preferred)
- Interest in or knowledge of trading cards, collectibles, or alternative asset markets
- Experience with LLM-based automation tools for data extraction and processing
Benefits
- $100/month work-from-home stipend
- $200/month wellness stipend
- WeWork office stipend
- 401(k) retirement benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous paid parental leave
- Competitive healthcare benefits, including HSA, for you and your dependent(s)
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