Analytics Engineer (Observability Tooling)

Sepal AI

$50–85/hr Location not stated Flexible hours Mid level

About the role

Sepal AI builds the world’s hardest tests for AI grounded in real-world software systems. We’re hiring a Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience and a strong systems mindset to help us build evaluation environments for AI in high-throughput log analysis contexts.

🧠 What You’ll Do

  • Design and implement analytical schemas and pipelines using tools like BigQuery, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Redshift, and other high-performance columnar databases.
  • Work on complex, distributed queries over massive log and telemetry datasets.
  • Create and manage synthetic datasets that simulate real-world DevOps, observability, or cloud infrastructure logs.
  • Tune and optimize distributed query execution plans to avoid timeouts and reduce over-scanning.

✅ Who You Are

  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering or backend systems roles.
  • Deep expertise in analytical databases and OLAP engines with a focus on large-scale query optimization, schema design, and performance tuning.
  • Hands-on with log ingestion pipelines (e.g., FluentBit, Logstash, Vector) and schema design for observability systems.
  • Strong SQL skills: you know how to reason through performance problems and spot inefficient query patterns.
  • Bonus: Experience with Python, Docker, or synthetic data generation.

💸 Pay
$50 - 85/hr depending on experience
Remote, flexible hours
Project timeline: 5-6 weeks

Education: Pre-Bachelor's degree

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