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Staff Data Engineer

Dish Network

Dish Network

Software Engineering, Data Science
Englewood, CO, USA · United States
USD 169,187-169,187 / year
Posted on Jul 3, 2025
Company Summary

DISH, an EchoStar Company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products, and now we are building America’s First Smart Network™.

Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Infinite, Boost Mobile, DISH Wireless, OnTech and GenMobile.


Department Summary

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Job Duties and Responsibilities

Staff Data Engineer –DISH Network in Englewood, Colorado.

Partner with data analysts, data scientists, and functional stakeholders to define needs and continuously improve the data platform. Engage with external executives and business stakeholders to identify pain points and communicate our solutions. Design and build mechanisms to tune, filter, and manage streaming big data from a wide variety of sources in a distributed platform. Define and evaluate key tasks and acceptance criteria of data systems in development and into production. Contribute to the overall data platform architecture and evolution/consider and build in a reusable and scalable manner. Normalize complicated data sources to convert potentially unusable data into a format that can be efficiently used by software and/or employees. Mentor junior engineers and new team members.


Skills, Experience and Requirements

Requires Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field. 5 years of experience in job offered or similar roles. Experience must include 5 years with/using the following:

  • Building reusable frameworks for Data Mesh Infrastructures (IaC, parameterized pipelines, containerized software, and data CI/CD)
  • Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load)
  • Implementing data-driven solutions using Kafka, Hadoop, Impala, Hive, NiFi, Prometheus, Spark, Athena, Redshift, ElasticSearch, BigTable, and Airflow.
  • Data Architectures such as Kappa, Lambda and Data Mesh.
  • AWS technologies (EC2, EMR, S3, Lake Formation, Redshift, IAM, Lambda)

Experience gained before or after Master’s degree is acceptable.


Salary Ranges

Compensation: $169,187.00/Year
Benefits

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.


Rate of Pay: $169,187.00


Benefits information available at careers.dish.com.


Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2025-93634 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2025-93636 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2025-93634) to tasharedservices@dish.com. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.