# Senior Data Engineer

**Company:** [Mozilla](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mozilla)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $104k – $164k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, GCP, Data Pipelines, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, Telemetry Processing, Data Observability, Cloud Distributed Systems, Stream Processing
**Posted:** 2026-04-09

> Senior Data Engineer builds and manages data pipelines, transforms telemetry into reliable datasets, ensures data quality and governance on GCP. Requires 4+ years experience, SQL/Python proficiency, strong modeling skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build and manage business data pipelines and transform Firefox telemetry data into structured, high-quality datasets.
- Partner with data scientists, product, and marketing teams to create models and metrics that drive decisions.
- Ensure data quality using observability tools, monitor performance, and participate in weekly triage rotation.
- Collaborate with data and platform engineers to evolve the data platform.
- Implement and enforce data governance and privacy policies across large-scale data systems.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of professional experience in data engineering.
- Proficiency in **SQL** and **Python**, with eagerness to integrate AI into workflows.
- Experience in data modeling for complex business processes into extensible analytical models.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: modular, reusable, performant code at scale.
- Self-directed execution: own projects end-to-end, manage blockers, communicate with team.
- Strong communication for distributed teams.

Proficiency in one or more:
- Recommending/implementing new data collection methods.
- Using data to answer questions and guide decisions.
- Cloud distributed systems (**GCP**), distributed databases, message queues, batch/stream processing.
- Orchestration, error handling, idempotency for data reliability.

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