Core Data Engineering
3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
Advanced SQL (BigQuery performance, partitioning, clustering)
Strong Python (data pipelines, APIs, batch & streaming jobs)
Experience building batch and streaming pipelines
BigQuery
Dataflow / Apache Beam
Pub/Sub
Cloud Storage
Data modeling for analytics and ML use cases
Production troubleshooting, optimization, and cost awareness
ML & GenAI
Experience supporting ML pipelines (training, inference, feature prep)
Hands-on with at least one of:
Vertex AI
Feature stores
Model inference pipelines
Experience working with LLM-based systems, including:
Embeddings generation
Vector databases / similarity search
RAG-style pipelines
Ability to prepare, version, and serve data for GenAI / ML workloads
Platform & Engineering
Experience with Airflow / Cloud Composer or equivalent orchestration
CI/CD pipelines for data & ML workloads
Infrastructure-as-code familiarity (Terraform preferred)
Understanding of IAM, data security, and access controls on GCP
Nice to Have
Experience with FinOps / cost optimization
Experience with real-time ML or low-latency inference
Experience with monitoring & observability for data/ML pipelines
Google Cloud certifications (Data Engineer / Architect)
