Jobs in Waltham, MA

About the role

Xometry is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad technical scope and high organizational impact. You will own data architecture decisions, lead the design of scalable pipelines and platforms, and set the engineering bar for how we build and operate our data systems. You will partner closely with engineering, product, analytics, and machine learning teams to ensure our data infrastructure enables the business to move fast and make high-quality decisions.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (or equivalent experience) plus at least 5 years of experience in a data engineering related role, with demonstrated ownership of complex, large-scale data systems
• Deep expertise
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python proficiency
• comfort picking up additional languages as needed
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets using modern tooling (dbt, Airbyte, Airflow, or similar)
• Demonstrated experience planning and implementing enterprise data architecture across multiple systems and domains, including integrations that cross organizational or partner boundaries
• Working knowledge of queueing, batch and stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Kinesis), and highly scalable data stores (e.g., Apache Iceberg)
• Experience writing database-heavy services or APIs and designing for testability and maintainability
• Deep understanding of CI/CD principles and demonstrated experience with automated testing, contract testing, and schema-evolution discipline in data pipelines
• Strong grasp of the AWS data ecosystem and cloud-native infrastructure
• Ability to operate independently on new and ambiguous assignments, determine methods and procedures, and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization — including with external partner engineering teams
• Enterprise / partner integration experience – Prior work integrating with PLM, ERP, or large enterprise SaaS systems

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