[Remote] Sr. Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NinjaTrader is an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker dedicated to empowering traders. As a Sr. Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and operationalizing the modern data platform that supports analytics, trading tools, and AI initiatives, helping to deliver best-in-class data architecture and real-time solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases, including high-volume, low-latency data processing
• Improve observability, alerting, and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early
• Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
• Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis
• Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
• Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
• Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
• Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
• Promote high standards in code quality, testing, and platform reliability
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend development
• Strong skills in SQL and Python for building and testing data solutions
• Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, etc.)
• Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis) in addition to GCP; bonus for EMR
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g., Terraform, GitOps)
• Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects (models, tests, macros, documentation, CI)
• Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect)
• Knowledge of data lake architecture, including file formats (Parquet, Avro) and open table formats (Apache Iceberg)
• Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architecture
• A track record of building automated, well-tested, and observable data systems
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, especially around data workloads and containerized pipelines
• Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink) and comfort working with high-volume, low-latency data flows
• Experience with change data capture tools (e.g., Debezium, Kafka Connect) and real-time data integration patterns
• Experience with BI tools like Looker Studio or QuickSight
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Background in fintech, trading, or derivatives

Benefits

• Annual target bonus of 10%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%)
• 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions
• Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year (some positions may qualify for more) plus seven paid holidays
• Hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays
• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays
• Generous PTO
• 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 401k with 3.5% Company Match
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

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