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Quest Global · 1 hour ago

Senior Staff Data Engineer

Quest Global delivers world-class engineering solutions by leveraging industry knowledge and digital expertise. They are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with expertise in Flink SQL to design and maintain real-time data processing pipelines, collaborating closely with various teams to create scalable data solutions.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain real-time streaming data pipelines using Apache Flink SQL
Collaborate with platform engineers to scale and optimize Flink jobs for performance and reliability
Build reusable data transformation logic and deploy to production-grade Flink clusters
Ensure high availability and correctness of real-time data pipelines
Work with product and analytics teams to understand requirements and translate them into Flink SQL jobs
Monitor and troubleshoot job failures, backpressure, and latency issues
Contribute to internal tooling and libraries that improve Flink developer productivity

Qualification

Flink SQLReal-time data processingApache Flink ecosystemApache KafkaContainerized deploymentsDistributed system designSoft skills

Required

8+ years of experience in data engineering
Deep hands-on experience with Flink SQL and the Apache Flink ecosystem
Strong understanding of event time vs processing time semantics, watermarks, and state management
3+ years of experience in data engineering, with strong focus on real-time/streaming data
Experience writing complex Flink SQL queries, UDFs, and windowing operations
Proficiency in working with streaming data formats such as Avro, Protobuf, or JSON
Experience with messaging systems like Apache Kafka or Pulsar
Familiarity with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
Solid understanding of distributed system design and performance optimization

Preferred

Experience with other stream processing frameworks (e.g., Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka Streams)
Familiarity with cloud-native data stacks (AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hub)
Experience in building internal tooling for observability or schema evolution
Prior contributions to the Apache Flink community or similar open-source projects

Benefits

Health insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan

Company

Quest Global

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Quest Global is an engineering solutions company that offers a range of services in the engineering and technology domains.

H1B Sponsorship

Quest Global has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (114)
2024 (93)
2023 (120)
2022 (94)
2021 (138)
2020 (607)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.08B
Key Investors
The Carlyle GroupChrysCapitalWarburg Pincus
2023-08-08Private Equity· $500M
2021-08-23Private Equity· $150M
2016-02-19Secondary Market· $350M

Leadership Team

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Ajit Prabhu
Chairman & CEO
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Rajendra Kumar Shreemal
Chief Financial Officer
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