ALSO. · 13 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer - Vehicle Telemetry and Data Infrastructure
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expALSO is an electric mobility company focused on creating innovative small EVs. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own the telemetry data platform, ensuring reliable and scalable ingestion and processing of vehicle-generated data.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Design and own large-scale ingestion pipelines for vehicle telemetry data (events, metrics, time-series) with high throughput and low latency
Architect and operate end-to-end ETL/ELT systems from raw ingestion to warehouse/lake consumption
Define schema evolution, versioning, and backward-compatibility strategies for telemetry data at scale
Build safe and repeatable backfill, replay, and reprocessing mechanisms for historical and real-time data
Design data storage and lifecycle strategies across hot, warm, and cold paths to balance cost and performance
Develop fault-tolerant, observable, and debuggable pipelines with strong SLAs around freshness, completeness, and latency
Implement backend services and APIs for telemetry ingestion, configuration management, metadata, and orchestration
Apply strong software engineering practices including object-oriented design, automated testing, CI/CD, and code reviews
Establish automated data quality checks, anomaly detection, alerting, lineage, and auditability across the platform
Provide technical leadership by setting platform direction, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and influencing product and engineering roadmaps
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data engineering and/or backend platform engineering operating production systems at scale
Deep hands-on experience with large-scale telemetry or IoT data, including high-throughput and low-latency ingestion
Strong expertise in AWS data and infrastructure services (S3, Kinesis/MSK, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge)
Proven experience owning end-to-end ETL/ELT infrastructure using Spark/PySpark (batch and streaming) on Databricks or EMR
Solid understanding of streaming architectures using Kafka or equivalent systems and time-series–optimized storage patterns
Strong backend engineering skills using Python and/or Java/Scala, including API design (REST/gRPC) and distributed systems fundamentals
Experience with data platform architectures such as data lakes and lakehouses, schema registries, and metadata systems
Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, MWAA, Dagster) and production-grade observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
Infrastructure-as-code expertise using CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK to manage scalable and reliable systems
A track record of building highly reliable, fault-tolerant systems with clear ownership, strong SLAs, and operational excellence
Preferred
Experience with vehicle, sensor, or IoT data
Streaming-first architectures
Experience supporting real-time inference pipelines
Prior Staff or Principal-level ownership of data platforms
Benefits
Robust health coverage. Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options.
One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
Flexible time off.
401(k) match.
Company
ALSO.
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian.
201-500 employees
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