Senior Data Engineer, Bio-tech - Spark/Scala/Elastic Search

Talener
Washington, US
RemoteVisa Sponsorship

Job Description

Our client is a an established Bio-tech / Software company that builds a suite of SaaS products to support scientific workflows, accelerating R&D across Biology and Chemistry. We are partnered them to hire multiple data engineers (Mid and Senior level) to join a small team where you’ll be working across ETL and solving complex big data problems.

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer or Data Engineer (Based on level/experience/internal equity)

Location: 100% Remote. Must be based in US (ET or CST). Must be eligible to work for any US employer without needing sponsorship/visa transfer. No C2C or third parties.

Required Technology And Skills

  • 5+ years professional data engineering experience, building, maintaining, and optimizing ETL pipelines
  • Expertise with various database technologies (Graph, Mongo, SQL, etc) and experience implementing the database layer of applications
  • Professional experience and expertise working hands-on with Elastic Search, and having implemented Elastic Search to support data issues of scale
  • Expertise with ETL development - speeds, feeds, processing large amounts of inbound data for use downstream
  • Hands-on data engineering experience with Spark or DASK
  • Scala programming experience
  • Experience working within bio-tech, biology, chemistry, or working with related scientific data
  • Experience working with AWS environment and related tools - ECS, Lambdas, etc.

Additional Skills

  • Degree in IT, Computer Science or STEM related field
  • Experience in bio-tech or life sciences
  • Expertise with Elastic Search, database architecture, ETL, Spark,

Salary Range: 140,000 - 180,000 base salary (Based on level/experience), with potential 10% annual bonus based on leveling

Benefits And Perks

  • Fully remote role
  • Opportunity to make large impact and work with some of the most advanced bio-tech data and research
  • Opportunity to contribute to breakthrough R&D across drug discovery, materials development, DNA sequencing, etc.
  • Excellent benefits - health, dental, vision, PTO, 401k
  • Great culture with extremely low turnover - opportunity to join an org with proven track record of promoting / internal talent development

If you are interested, please apply directly for immediate consideration or reach out to Andrew Zaloom at azaloom@talener.com

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

SparkScalaElastic searchEtlAwsDaskSqlMongoGraphPythonBio-techBiologyChemistry

Salary

$140,000 - $180,000

year

Level

senior

Posted

4/30/2026

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