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Company: Coreforce
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Based on Experience
Company Overview:
Coreforce is an innovative technology company providing public safety organizations a comprehensive technology suite from dispatch to the courtroom. Coreforce delivers integrated technology designed to support public safety entities, regardless of organizational size. Our products - body cameras, in-car videos, mobile routers, and digital evidence systems- help public safety officers and first responders save lives, strengthen community trust, and enhance accountability.
Senior Data Engineer - Build Your Career with Purpose
Join Coreforce and use your engineering skills to support innovative technology that strengthens communities.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- 15 PTO days + floating holiday.
- Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k). We provide 401(k) matching per the terms of the 401(k) plan.
- Annual bonus.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Career growth in a fast-growing, mission-driven company.
- Collaborative, purpose-driven culture.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build the migration system that moves customer data from internal and external legacy systems into our platform—millions of rows per conversion.
- Map heterogeneous source data—legacy CAD/RMS exports, third-party databases, flat files—into our data model.
- Own migration correctness end to end—validation, reconciliation, and reporting that proves nothing was lost or corrupted.
- Build tooling that makes conversions repeatable, auditable, and progressively more automated.
- Contribute to analytics and business intelligence—modeled datasets, reporting, and dashboards that agencies depend on.
- Optimize query performance and storage costs across large, growing datasets.
- Debug and resolve data issues in production systems that operate 24/7/365.
- Collaborate with Product, Implementation, and Operations teams to deliver on agency onboarding commitments.
- 4+ years of software or data engineering experience
- High-volume ETL or data migration in production—you've moved millions of rows between systems that couldn't afford to lose one
- Strong SQL and data modeling—schema design, mapping between disparate schemas, query optimization
- Programming proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
- Experience extracting from operational databases—relational and document stores— without disrupting production workloads
- Rigor around data correctness—validation, reconciliation, idempotent re-runs, audit trails
- Comfort with mature codebases—you can navigate, improve, and ship in systems you didn't build
- Production debugging skills—you've been paged off-hours and fixed forward
- AWS experience in production environments
- AI/LLM fluency—you actively use AI tools to accelerate your work and generate production-ready code
Technology
- Data stores: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Migration & pipelines: Go, Python, high-volume ETL
- Analytics: SQL-based reporting, Grafana dashboards
- Infrastructure: AWS ECS, Terraform
Preferred Qualifications
- Legacy system conversions—CAD/RMS, ERP, EHR, or similar vendor-to-vendor data migrations
- Streaming and event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Modern data stack tooling (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or warehouse platforms)
- BI and observability tooling (Grafana or similar)
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture patterns
- Public safety, healthcare, or government/compliance-heavy domainCJIS, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 environments
Coreforce is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
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