Senior Data Engineer

Documentation: Meticulous approach to creating and maintaining architecture and systems documentation.

Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work across teams to understand and address diverse data needs while maintaining data integrity.

Growth Orientation: Desire to continually keep up with advancements in data engineering practices and technologies.

Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical skills to troubleshoot complex data issues and implement effective solutions.

Independence: Capability to ship medium features independently while contributing to the team's overall objectives.

What you’ll be doing in the role

Build and maintain data pipelines that power analytics, ML workloads, and product-facing applications - from internal databases, SaaS sources, and streaming systems through to the teams and services that consume them.

Evolve our data platform alongside cloud platform engineers, using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and Kubernetes-based deployments (Argo) to keep the platform scalable, reliable, and self-serve.

System Architecture: Design and implement scalable data infrastructure that accommodates our growing data volume and complexity.

Develop data services and APIs that expose trusted data to product applications, bridging analytical and operational systems.

Own data quality and observability, putting monitoring, testing, and alerting in place so issues are caught early and trust in the data stays high.

Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams to understand their data needs and design the right solutions – not just the quickest ones.

Uphold strong data privacy, security, and compliance practices in everything you build, particularly where data flows into product-facing contexts.

Technical Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of data flows, models, and systems for knowledge sharing.

Security and Compliance: Ensure all data systems adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.

Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.

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