4+ years of data engineering experience
At least 2 years of experience with Databricks or the Apache Spark ecosystem across Azure and/or AWS
Proficiency in PySpark, SQL, and Python with a strong track record of building and operating production-grade pipelines under SLA constraints
Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, including schema evolution, ACID transactions, optimize/vacuum lifecycle, and both incremental and streaming processing patterns
Hands-on experience with pipeline performance tuning and compute optimization in production Databricks environments
Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL, including query optimization, schema design, and use as a source or sink in production data pipelines
Experience supporting and maintaining legacy ETL tooling (SSIS, Informatica, custom Python/SQL pipelines, or similar) in production
Experience supporting large-scale multi-tenant architectures with a focus on tenant isolation, per-tenant performance, and data privacy, including navigating tools and platforms that default to single-tenant assumptions
Proven ability to work collaboratively across data science, product, and infrastructure teams, owning end-to-end delivery in a cross-functional environment
Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance principles, including access control, data privacy, and protection of sensitive enterprise data across multi-tenant environments
Experience operating Databricks workspaces across both Azure and AWS, including cost governance, cluster management, and cross-cloud data access
Experience optimizing Databricks workloads in a Serverless environment, including compute cost governance and performance tuning for serverless compute
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server in a data engineering or ETL context
Exposure to ML feature engineering or feature stores (Databricks Feature Store, Feast, or similar) supporting predictive analytics
Experience with customer onboarding automation or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns for provisioning tenant data pipelines at scale
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification