Senior Data Engineer-Mandarin speaking required

Speed Express is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to lead enterprise data platform development, optimization, and production operational support in Montebello, CA.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with offshore engineering teams to design and implement scalable enterprise data architecture
• Build, optimize, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and semi-structured datasets
• Develop and support enterprise data warehouse and lakehouse solutions
• Integrate data from ERP systems, CRM platforms, APIs, flat files, streaming systems, and SaaS applications
• Design and maintain semantic and curated data layers for analytics and reporting
• Provide technical leadership plus operational support for a production data platform environment
• Monitor reliability, performance, and availability of the platform
• Troubleshoot and resolve production data pipeline and platform issues
• Implement logging, alerting, observability, and operational best practices
• Support scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery readiness
• Design and manage workflow orchestration and job scheduling frameworks
• Optimize distributed data processing workloads and streaming pipelines
• Improve data processing efficiency, latency, and throughput
• Apply data quality validation, governance, and reconciliation processes
• Support data security, access control, and compliance requirements
• Establish standards for data modeling, naming conventions, metadata management, and data lifecycle management
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to maintain consistency and governance across the data ecosystem
• Coordinate development with offshore teams across multiple time zones
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Partner with BI, analytics, infrastructure, and application teams to support enterprise data initiatives

Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, big data, or data platform development
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and Python
• Experience building enterprise-grade ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong knowledge of distributed data processing and streaming technologies
• Experience supporting production data platforms and mission-critical workloads
• Experience working with offshore or distributed engineering teams
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills

Technologies

• SQL, Python
• dbt
• Apache Airflow
• Apache Spark
• Apache Flink
• Apache Kafka
• Databricks
• Apache Pinot
• Apache Doris
• AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

Preferred Skills

• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Containerization and Kubernetes
• Monitoring and observability tools
• Data governance and metadata management platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time streaming architectures and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience supporting BI and analytics workloads
• Familiarity with modern medallion/lakehouse architecture patterns
• Experience in high-availability and high-throughput production environments
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Key Competencies

• Technical leadership
• Problem-solving and root cause analysis
• Production support ownership mindset
• Scalability and performance optimization
• Cross-team collaboration
• Process improvement and operational excellence

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Compensation and Location

• Pay: From $65,000.00 per year
• Location: Montebello, CA (onsite)
• Work location: In person

Additional note: Senior Data Engineer - Mandarin speaking required.