Company
Micro1
Hourly rate
$40 – $60/hr
Location
Remote
Listed
19d ago
- Min. degree:
- Master's
- Level:
- Junior
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Work Arrangement: Hourly, with expected weekly hours agreed upfront
What you'll do
- Help customers bring their data into the platform, from initial preparation through successful transfer and validation.
- Build and improve scripts, integrations, and automations that make data ingestion faster and more reliable.
- Investigate and resolve technical issues across APIs, data formats, and transfer workflows, with support from core FDEs.
- Monitor active workflows, identify gaps, and verify that customer data arrives complete and accurate.
- Work directly with customers and internal teams to communicate progress and move past blockers.
- Turn recurring issues into better tooling, documentation, and reusable workflows.
- Take on increasingly complex technical work as your experience and ownership grow.
What you need
- Foundational programming skills, including the ability to write and debug basic scripts in Python or a similar language.
- Familiarity with APIs and comfort using command-line tools and Git.
- A methodical approach to troubleshooting and willingness to ask for help when needed.
- Strong ownership, reliability, and attention to detail.
- Clear written communication with customers and internal teams.
- Ability to follow runbooks, recognize their limitations, and suggest improvements.
- Sound judgment around sensitive data and production systems.
- Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to take on increasing engineering responsibility.
Nice to have
- Experience with SQL, data pipelines, or large datasets.
- Familiarity with cloud storage and data-transfer workflows.
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- Familiarity with formats such as JSON, CSV, or Parquet.
- Experience using AI coding tools to build and debug, with careful review of their output.
- Experience in a startup or customer-facing technical role.
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