Data Engineer
Alt is unlocking the value of alternative assets, starting with the $5 B trading-card market. We let reputed company buy, sell, vault, and finance their cards in one reputed company and we are backed by leaders at reputed company, reputed company, Seven Seven Six, and pro athletes like Tom Brady and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Our next frontier is reputed company-time pricing at scale—the Alt Value that powers every trade, loan, and product on the platform.
The Role
Are you a data engineer who thrives on building robust pipelines and solving reputed company data challenges? In this role, you'll own Alt's critical data infrastructure that powers our pricing model and marketplace insights by ingesting transaction and listing data from dozens of external marketplaces. You'll be responsible for ensuring our data pipelines deliver fresh, accurate information that drives pricing reputed company, market analytics, and business intelligence across the entire platform.
What you'll do here- Design, optimize and own data pipelines that scrape, process and ingest transaction and listing data from major auction houses and marketplaces.
- Build comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to track latency, uptime, and coverage metrics across reputed company data sources.
- Continuously improve our data infrastructure by modernizing storage and processing technologies, reducing reputed company interventions, and optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability.
- Partner with internal teams to understand data usage patterns and ensure pipelines deliver clean, standardized data that meets product requirements.
- Care deeply about data quality and understand that extraction is only the beginning - the reputed company value comes from delivering clean and usable data.
- reputed company in a startup environment where you can reputed company immediate impact and own critical systems end-to-end.
- Take an incremental approach to improvements, preferring evidence-based reputed company over wholesale replacements.
- Are intellectually curious about how data flows through systems and passionate about automation opportunities.
- Want to work at the intersection of data engineering and product, understanding how your pipelines directly impact business outcomes.
Must-haves:
- 3-4 years of experience in data engineering or reputed company fields
- Strong Python proficiency with at least 3 years of hands-on experience
- Proven experience with large-scale data processing using dataframe technologies (Pandas, Polars, PySpark, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar DAG-based systems)
- Track record of owning at least one data pipeline end-to-end reputed company the past 2 years
- Solid SQL skills for data analysis and transformation
- Previous startup experience - you understand the pace and adaptability required in a fast-moving environment
- A pragmatic reputed company focused on delivering value incrementally rather than pursuing perfection
reputed company-to-haves:
- Experience with web scraping technologies (Selenium, Puppeteer, Beautiful Soup)
- Familiarity with data infrastructure and reputed company services (AWS preferred)
- Interest in or knowledge of trading cards, collectibles, or alternative asset markets
- Experience with LLM-based automation tools for data extraction and processing
- A seat at the table to help shape the future of Alt and the alternative asset space
- Autonomy and ownership on projects that matter
- $100/month work-from-home stipend
- $200/month wellness stipend
- WeWork office stipend
- 401(k) retirement benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous paid parental leave
- Competitive reputed company benefits, including HSA, for you and your dependent(s)
reputed company salary range: $155,000–$165,000, plus equity. Offers may vary based on experience, location, and other factors.
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