Data Engineer

About this role

Alt is seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain critical data pipelines that power their alternative asset trading platform. You'll own infrastructure for ingesting marketplace data, ensuring data quality, and delivering insights that drive pricing and business intelligence across the platform.

What you'll do

• Design and optimize data pipelines to scrape, process, and ingest transaction data from multiple marketplaces
• Build monitoring and alerting systems to track pipeline health, latency, and data coverage
• Modernize data infrastructure by evaluating storage and processing technologies to improve cost and reliability
• Collaborate with product and analytics teams to understand data needs and deliver clean, standardized datasets
• Own data pipelines end-to-end from ingestion through delivery to stakeholders

What they're looking for

• Python (3+ years)
• Data processing frameworks (Pandas, Polars, PySpark)
• Pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster)
• SQL for analysis and transformation
• Web scraping technologies (nice-to-have)
• AWS or cloud infrastructure (nice-to-have)
• Data quality and validation mindset
• Startup environment experience

Benefits

• $155,000–$165,000 base salary plus equity
• $100/month work-from-home stipend
• $200/month wellness stipend
• 401(k) retirement benefits and competitive healthcare coverage
• Flexible vacation and generous paid parental leave
• WeWork office stipend available