# Data Engineer

**Company:** [Cape](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cape)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $235k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Data Modeling, Python, Go, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, ETL, ELT, Data Pipelines, data warehouses, privacy-preserving practices
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Build privacy-first data infrastructure and analytics platform for a secure mobile carrier. Design warehouses, pipelines, and self-serve dashboards with privacy baked in from day one. Requires 4+ years data engineering experience, strong SQL, Python/Go, and cloud warehouse skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build Cape's data platform from the ground up, spanning the warehouse, query layer, and pipeline orchestration, with privacy as a first-class requirement.
- Work closely with engineering to establish privacy-preserving patterns and practices.
- Provide product, operations, and leadership with self-serve analytics including dashboards, metrics, and reports.
- Establish data engineering practices such as pipeline conventions, testing, documentation, and rigorous standards for data infrastructure.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience, with meaningful time building data pipelines and warehouses.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with experience designing schemas for analytics workloads.
- Fluency in Python, Go, or another backend language.
- Hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, MongoDB or Redshift.
- Familiarity with ETL/ELT frameworks and workflow orchestration tools.
- Solid understanding of privacy-preserving data practices including access control, data minimization, and identifier management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in a regulated or privacy-sensitive industry (telecom, healthcare, fintech).
- Background in differential privacy, k-anonymity, or other formal privacy models.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $180,000-$235,000 (New York, New York).
- Equity.
- Benefits: 401(k) match, 100% coverage of medical/dental/vision premiums, 12 weeks paid parental leave, stipends for family-forming and gender-affirming care, unlimited PTO.

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