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Description

We are looking for a skilled Software Developer with expertise to join our team in Washington, DC. This is a long-term contract position offering the opportunity to work on innovative projects and contribute to the development of high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application performance and scalability.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

+ Design and optimize data ingestion and indexing pipelines

+ Work with structured and unstructured data to support real-time search capabilities

+ Develop and maintain workflows using Airflow, PySpark, and Databricks

+ Build and deploy infrastructure using Terraform

+ Index data into Elasticsearch or AWS Search with low latency

+ Troubleshoot networking and cloud infrastructure issues

+ Collaborate on potential API service development (in planning phase)

+ Contribute to infrastructure scalability (possible use of Kubernetes)

Requirements

Tech Stack

+ Languages & Tools: Python, PySpark, Pandas

+ Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Glue, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Athena), Airflow, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Terraform, Elasticsearch/AWS Search

+ Development: Microservices, API development (FastAPI, Django – nice-to-have)

+ Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (optional)

Required Qualifications

+ 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering

+ Strong proficiency in:

+ AWS

+ Python

+ PySpark (basic or better)

+ Airflow

+ Terraform

+ Cloud networking troubleshooting

Preferred Skills

+ Experience with Elasticsearch or AWS Search

+ Familiarity with Kubernetes

+ Background in microservices/API development

+ Cloud database setup and optimization

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