Remote Remote (Global) Employment $150,000 - $180,000 a year

Instrumentl is hiring a Senior Data Engineer

About the Role

The position involves developing robust data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy, and enabling insights across the platform through modern data engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingestion and transformation
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval across distributed systems
  • Ensure data quality and integrity through monitoring and validation
  • Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to support modeling needs
  • Maintain and improve existing ETL workflows
  • Work with cloud-based data platforms and services
  • Support the integration of third-party data sources
  • Develop documentation for data architecture and processes
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues
  • Contribute to system reliability and performance improvements
  • Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
  • Implement data security and access controls
  • Assist in defining data standards and best practices
  • Scale infrastructure to meet growing data demands
  • Use version control for data pipeline management
  • Integrate machine learning outputs into production systems
  • Monitor pipeline health and set up alerting mechanisms
  • Support compliance with data governance policies
  • Collaborate across engineering and product teams
  • Evaluate and adopt new data technologies when beneficial
  • Ensure efficient data modeling for analytics use cases
  • Drive automation in data operations
  • Maintain metadata and data lineage tracking
  • Contribute to disaster recovery and backup strategies
  • Support real-time data processing where required

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical field
  • Experience in the research or nonprofit sector
  • Contributions to open-source data projects
  • Familiarity with grant lifecycle data
  • Experience with data observability tools

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Remote-friendly with flexible hours

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on data infrastructure

About Us

  • Our platform helps researchers and institutions discover funding opportunities and manage grant workflows efficiently.
  • We combine data, automation, and user experience to streamline the grant lifecycle.

Impact

  • Engineers directly influence how organizations secure funding for scientific and social impact projects.
  • Data systems enable personalized recommendations and actionable insights for users.

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Instrumentl
Instrumentl is a hyper-growth YC-backed startup with over 4,500 nonprofit clients, from local homeless shelters to larger organizations like the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. We are building the future of fundraising automation, helping nonprofits to discover, track, and manage grants efficiently through our SaaS platform. Our charts are dramatically up-and-to-the-right 📈 — we’re cash flow positive and doubling year-over-year, with customers who love us (NPS is 65+ and Ellis PMF survey is 60+).
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category data
Posted a month ago