Data Engineer, Cloud Platform

About this role

Contoro Robotics, an Austin-based warehouse automation startup, seeks a Data Engineer to design and maintain a company-wide analytics data pipeline that powers decision-making across teams. You'll own metrics instrumentation, data quality, and self-service analytics capabilities spanning robot and cloud systems.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve event-driven data architectures for telemetry ingestion, schema evolution, and downstream consumption
• Own the catalog of metrics, events, schemas, and data contracts across the organization
• Develop automated validation systems and tests to ensure telemetry accuracy and prevent regressions
• Build performant SQL queries, time-series analytics pipelines, and pre-calculated metrics for fast reporting
• Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of data pipelines spanning robots and cloud systems
• Establish best practices for analytics instrumentation, testing, and governance

What they're looking for

• Python, Docker, and SQL databases in production
• Advanced SQL including aggregations, time-series analysis, and optimization
• Data pipeline technologies (Kafka, MQTT, Fluent Bit, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB)
• Event schema design and data contract definition
• Automated data quality testing and validation
• Analytics data modeling and metrics API development
• Cross-functional collaboration and technical communication
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience