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Staff Data Engineer

Copper

Berkeley, CA · full time · Senior

$185,000 – $223,000

Listed on Copper’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role owns the complete data infrastructure for an IoT hardware company's connected appliances, building the pipelines and systems that move telemetry from kitchen devices into dashboards for operations and customer support. It suits experienced data engineers who've scaled distributed systems at hardware or IoT companies and want to work across the full stack from device to analytics.

Our summary, not Copper’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 8+ years building production data infrastructure
  • Experience at IoT or hardware company
  • Strong design fundamentals in backend and distributed systems
  • Fluency in Python, SQL, and TypeScript
  • Experience with time-series and data warehousing
  • Streaming and ETL pipeline design experience
  • Hands-on AWS data services experience
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or AWS CDK
  • Production-quality systems with reliability and testing focus
  • Cross-team communication across engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and make pragmatic tradeoffs

Nice to have

  • Domain knowledge in energy and battery IoT products
  • Experience building and maintaining LLM-based tools
  • CRM system integration experience
  • Edge data architecture and intermittent connectivity patterns
  • Agile/Scrum experience

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