Analytics Engineer (Observability Tooling)

Sepal AI

$50-85/hrRemoteContract & freelance
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.

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

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