# Senior Data Engineer I at SpotHero

- Company: SpotHero
- What the company does: Backed by Insight and 500 Global.
- Company website: http://spothero.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $136K to $153K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://spothero.com/careers/8214597/?gh_jid=8214597
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spothero-senior-data-engineer-i/

## About the role

SpotHero is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering squad. This squad interacts with data consumers such as Data Science, Marketing, Engineering, and Business Analysts to provide data platform solutions that meet their day-to-day needs and long term vision.

## What they're looking for

- You are able to design and implement high-quality software in Python
- Experience using SQL to read and manage data
- Experience with Airflow, Luigi, Prefect, or other ETL scheduling tools
- You have experience provisioning and managing infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tools (we use Terraform, but experience with similar tools like CloudFormation, Pulumi, or SaltStack is totally fine!)
- Hands-on experience using multiple data platforms and tools (e.g. Airflow, Hive, Kafka, Postgres, Redshift, S3, Spark, Trino, Airbyte), and experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining at least one of them
- Ability to deploy containerized software in Kubernetes, or sufficient experience in similar technologies like Apache Mesos or Amazon ECS

Tags: Engineering