Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sayari is a company focused on trustworthy AI for economic security and commercial risk. The Data Engineer role involves building and scaling data pipelines to transform vast amounts of records into actionable intelligence, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement new features, and contributing to a robust engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python, Spark, and Airflow to support our core data acquisition and entity resolution engines
- Collaborate cross-functionally with AI/ML and Product teams to implement new features and AI-native products
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in our complex ETL processes, bringing a fresh perspective to refine and optimize our existing codebase
- Contribute to a robust engineering culture through rigorous code reviews, unit testing, and clear communication of design decisions
- Own the end-to-end delivery of roadmap tasks within two-week sprints, ensuring work meets high standards for quality, documentation, and performance
- Participate in roadmap planning and story refinement, eventually taking ownership of major epics that drive our long-term product defensibility
Skills
- Professional proficiency in Python and experience contributing to shared codebases using Git (branching, PRs, code reviews)
- 3+ years of experience working in Data Engineering
- Demonstrated experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL/BigQuery) and an interest in or familiarity with graph databases
- Familiarity with distributed computing (Spark) or a strong desire to master it
- Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively in an Agile, sprint-based environment
- A 'self-directed' orientation: ability to move tasks from 'assigned' to 'complete' with high autonomy and clear communication
- Experience with Django, Scala, or Scrapy
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow
- Experience or strong interest in LLM tuning, deployment, and AI engineering best practices
- Experience working with international or non-English datasets
- Prior experience working with high-scale, complex data pipelines
Benefits
- 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
- Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
- Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and bonuses for non-revenue positions
- A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave
- A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities
Company Overview
Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://sayari.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Sayari has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.