About Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 to create a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products, making them more sustainable and driving down the cost for batteries. We’re doing this by developing and deploying new technologies to increase the scope and scale of recycled and sustainable materials in the global battery supply chain.
Senior Data Engineer
Redwood Materials is looking for motivated and talented data engineers to help model and manage data assets in a data lake architecture, overseeing the full data lifecycle from ingestion to processing to consumption. The ideal candidate is someone experienced with both data engineering and creating/managing/supporting AWS infrastructure. This is an opportunity to join during a critical growth phase and build green field software experiences and capabilities which will have a significant impact on the company’s day-to-day operations and ability to scale.
Responsibilities will include:
- Build and manage a data lake in AWS leveraging and augmenting existing LakeFormation based architecture.
- Build and maintain data pipelines from a variety of data sources, including streaming datasets, APIs, and various data stores, leveraging PySpark and AWS Glue
- Create data sets from the data lake to support various use cases, such as business analytics, dashboards, reports and machine learning.
- Drive technical decisions on the best ways to serve data consumers (data warehouse vs. search engine databases, etc.)
- Leverage existing AWS architectures and design new ones where needed, using the CDK tool kit.
- Operationalize data workloads in AWS, automating pipelines and implementing appropriate monitoring.
- Work with cross functional teams to discover business needs and design appropriate data flows.
Desired qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience developing data solutions in a modern cloud environment.
- Fluency in Python.
- Experience authoring and maintaining ETL jobs (PySpark experience a plus).
- Experience designing and interacting with relational and non-relational data stores.
- Experience with AWS ecosystem and resources and using Infrastructure-as-code methodologies (CDK a plus).
- Demonstrated ability to manage production data workloads.
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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What We Do
Redwood is developing a fully closed-loop, domestic supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Our team manufactures critical battery components using as many recycled batteries as possible — localizing a 50,000-mile global supply battery chain on a single site.
