# Data Engineer - Flight Data (contract) at Pivotal

- Company: Pivotal
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.pivotal.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $60 to $70/hr (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/pivotal/eb8100f9-b79a-43d8-b6d8-bdc578542b5d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pivotal-data-engineer-flight-data-contract/

## About the role

Mobility is one of the most highly-valued areas of modern technology investments. This is the right company, in the right space, the right strategy, at the right time. If you are ready for adventure, we invite you to join our amazing team and grow with us.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 3+ years of professional data engineering experience building and operating production pipelines
- Strong SQL, including window functions and query tuning on a distributed, columnar engine (Athena/Trino/Presto, Spark, Snowflake, or BigQuery)
- Proficient in Python for production services — not just notebooks: packaging, dependency management, unit tests, and code review
- Hands-on experience with the AWS data stack: S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, and IAM
- Dimensional modeling and warehouse design, including partitioning strategy for large tables

Tags: General Engineering