Job description
RYZ is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling data infrastructure. This is a high-impact role that involves end-to-end ownership of data pipelines, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and contributions to the client’s analytics and ML workflows.
Role Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable data pipelines from raw ingestion to downstream analytics layers (including dashboards and ML features).
- Lead the development of new data infrastructure projects from scratch and own delivery through production.
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to ensure high data quality and alignment across stakeholders.
- Optimize performance and cost across data workflows (e.g., query tuning, storage optimization).
- Establish and maintain robust monitoring and observability across the data stack.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a related field.
- Advanced SQL skills and deep experience with modern data warehouses, especially Snowflake.
- Proficient in orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow.
- Experience with dbt for data modeling and transformation.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, ECS).
- Familiarity with version control, CI/CD workflows, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Preferred Experience:
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience owning and delivering greenfield projects independently.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for cloud-based data infrastructure.
- Background in analytics or ML data preparation.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make decisions in lightly structured environments.
About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world’s largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.
Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.
At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.
Our values and what to expect:
- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.
- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.
- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.
- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less.
- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.
- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.
