Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate and is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to lead technical initiatives in AI-powered product delivery. The role involves shaping platform architecture, building high-throughput streaming pipelines, and ensuring data quality and observability.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale high-throughput streaming pipelines
- Design, implement, and operate pipelines ingesting 400M+ monthly MLS updates across 350+ integrations using Airflow, Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Iceberg—ensuring reliability, performance, and data correctness
- Model and deliver high-quality, production-grade real estate datasets
- Develop and maintain datasets that power core product experiences, with a focus on data modeling, transformation logic, and balancing freshness, accuracy, and cost
- Strengthen data quality and observability
- Implement and improve data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to detect issues early and reduce downstream impact
- Leverage AI to improve data operations
- Contribute to AI-driven tooling that helps triage, debug, and resolve data quality issues, increasing team efficiency and reducing manual intervention
Skills
- 6+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience
- Strong experience with distributed data processing and streaming systems (Spark / PySpark, Kafka)
- Proficiency in Python (Pydantic preferred) and familiarity with Node/TypeScript is a plus
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines on AWS using tools like Airflow, Spark Streaming, and Iceberg
- Solid understanding of data modeling and working with large-scale datasets
- Familiarity with event-driven systems and ingestion patterns (Kafka, SQS)
- Experience implementing data quality checks, monitoring, and debugging data issues
- Proven track record leading high-impact initiatives from concept through production in a SaaS environment
- Expert-level grasp of software design principles and experience with multi-tenant platform architectures
- You already build with AI daily. You use Claude Code as a core part of your workflow, not as a novelty
- You have strong opinions, loosely held, about how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture
- You think in systems. You connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and long-term business value
- You communicate clearly and directly. You can explain complex tradeoffs to product, design, and executive stakeholders
- You're energized by ambiguity and speed. You thrive in a fast-growing company where the roadmap evolves and ownership is real
- You like to have fun at work. We take our craft seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate wins, crack jokes, and genuinely enjoy building together
- Interest in applying AI/ML or automation to improve data workflows is a plus
Company Overview
Luxury Presence is a website and marketing system used by the world’s leading real estate agents and brokers. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.luxurypresence.com/.