Jr. Data Engineer

Sayari is looking for an Entry-Level Data Engineer to join our Data team located in Washington, DC. The Data team is an integral part of our Engineering division and works closely with our Software & Product teams, as well as other key stakeholders across the business.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write and deploy crawling scripts to collect source data from the web
• Write and run data transformers in Scala Spark to standardize bulk data sets
• Write and run modules in Python to parse entity references and relationships from source data
• Diagnose and fix bugs reported by internal and external users
• Analyze and report on internal datasets to answer questions and inform feature work
• Work collaboratively on and across a team of engineers using basic agile principles
• Give and receive feedback through code reviews

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SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent hands-on experience
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (such as Postgres)
• Experience writing code in Python (e.g., pandas, NumPy, Scrapy) or Java/Scala
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, or strong interest in learning them on the job
• Understanding of object-oriented programming principles and collaborative development in shared repositories
• Ability to work closely with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to help solve complex problems across large, diverse datasets

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Desired Skills & Experience

• Exposure to workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with graph, search, or NoSQL databases
• Experience contributing to data ingestion, transformation, or ETL pipelines
• Comfort working with containerized applications (e.g., Docker)
• Experience using cloud-based data tools in AWS or GCP environments
• Introductory experience or coursework involving machine learning, especially in distributed systems like Spark
• Awareness of entity resolution concepts or interest in learning how entities are linked across data sources
• Experience working with international or non-English datasets