Telecommute Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — Digital AI Training Advisor

Hey! The team at SMR Talent Collective is excited to announce a fresh, high-paying remote role for an enthusiastic Telecommute Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — Digital AI Training Advisor earning $7 - $8/hour. If you have solid experience in Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture and love working with modern digital tools, you'll feel right at home here. Join a supportive global community of remote evaluators shaping how modern organizations solve problems every day.

What You'll Be Doing Day-to-Day

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with the software engineering fundamentals needed to build reliable data infrastructure.
• Build our data platform from zero: Architect and implement our internal data warehouse, ingestion infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, and core data models.
• Create agent-ready data foundations: Design reliable, well-documented datasets and interfaces that AI agents can safely discover, query, and use.
• Turn messy data into trusted systems: Transform fragmented operational and product data into consistent, high-quality sources of truth.
• Enable self-service analytics: Build the infrastructure that allows engineering, product, and business teams to answer questions independently without relying on manual data requests.
• Own product analytics infrastructure: Establish the event tracking, instrumentation, data models, and reporting foundations needed to understand product usage and performance.
• Automate data operations: Leverage AI coding agents and intelligent automation to accelerate pipeline development, data validation, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

What You Bring to the Table

• Experience with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of data quality, lineage, observability, access controls, and production data reliability.
• Experience designing analytics infrastructure that supports product insights and operational decision-making.
• AI-native engineering habits: You already use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow and actively automate repetitive development and data engineering tasks.
• Ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing scalability, simplicity, performance, and engineering velocity.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.
• You've been the founding or early Data Engineer responsible for building a company's first real data platform.

Pay Details & Why This Role Rocks

• Compensation Rate: $7 - $8/hour (verified contractor remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture
• Hiring Lead: Maya Lin (Community Talent Manager) at SMR Talent Collective

Direct Application Process: Click the Apply button on this page to submit your profile directly for immediate evaluation.