Staff Data Engineer

About this role

About Shift5

Shift5 is building the data platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We deliver cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance capabilities that enable defense and commercial fleets to operate with greater readiness, resilience, and mission assurance.

We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our growing Product Engineering team. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to design, build, and maintain data processing, storage, and integration pipelines while acting as a force-multiplier for your team. You will report to our Off Vehicle Manager, Software Engineering, and operate in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to conceive, implement, and shape major features. You’ll be a major factor in generating high-impact products that literally save lives.

What You'll Do

• Design & Build Pipelines: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable batch and streaming data processing, storage, and integration pipelines using technologies such as Apache Airflow or Benthos.

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Feature Ownership & Leadership: Interpret requirements and design specifications, taking full ownership of building features from the ground up. Mentor and lead the rest of your team to deliver the right solutions.

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Write Quality Code: Write clean, well-documented, scalable, extensible, and testable code to ensure application quality and maintainability.

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Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data scientists and engineers to create semantic data models representing complex vehicular systems, and integrate applications cleanly across other Shift5 componentry.

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Support Stakeholders: Build scalable data products for data scientists, transportation engineers, and executives to drive insights and decision-making.

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Cloud Optimization: Create efficient, reliable, cost-effective, dynamically scalable, and observable solutions utilizing AWS cloud services.

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Data Analysis & Quality: Analyze complex data sets to create data ontologies, verify data quality/integrity, and ensure data accuracy throughout pipelines.

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Field Support: Support the design process and occasionally travel to customer sites (estimated a few times per year) to collaborate with Field Engineers on data integration and deployment.

What Success Looks Like

• High-Impact Delivery: You successfully deliver scalable, observable, supportable, and reliable data processing applications that empower customers to run smarter, safer fleets.

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End-to-End Ownership: You confidently steer complex data applications from scratch—including requirements gathering, design, planning, and implementation—in a fast-paced environment.

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Collaborative Impact: You actively shape product design alongside multidisciplinary teams, acting as a technical leader and force-multiplier for your peers.

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Adaptability: You efficiently multitask and smoothly accommodate changing priorities on demand to meet the dynamic needs of a scaling company.

What We’re Looking For

Required:

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Engineering Experience: 6+ years of software/data engineering experience with a deep understanding of software…