Proven experience (3+ years) working as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer in a cloud environment.
Experience building production data pipelines with an orchestrator like Airflow/Cloud Composer and a data warehouse like BigQuery.
Solid grasp of data engineering fundamentals: data modeling, ETL/ELT, and building idempotent, reliable pipelines.
Experience shipping LLM-powered features or pipelines to production with LLM APIs (e.g., Gemini, Claude, OpenAI): prompting, structured outputs, and tool/function calling.
Working knowledge of agent patterns (tool use, multi-step workflows, retrieval/RAG, MCP) and their production tradeoffs, such as cost, latency, and failure modes.
Daily, fluent use of AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) in your workflow, with the judgment to review and verify what they produce.
Experience with Git, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
Experience building data apps or dashboards end to end, including a backend API and a frontend (e.g., React, TypeScript), is a plus.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently on ambiguous problems.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You'll be working closely with analysts, product, and other stakeholders.