Data Engineer – Data Platform (AI-Enabled) at Petal · Remote (Canada)
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Airflow
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Azure
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Kafka
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We are looking for someone who can clearly articulate their personal journey into Data Engineering and AI-first development, including real
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Your expertise in Data Engineering
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How your development workflow has become more productive because of AI.
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Which AI tools you use, and for what types of work.
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How you validate, review, and improve AI-generated outputs.
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Where AI works well, where it fails, and how you manage those risks.
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How you have helped others adopt AI-first ways of working.
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Experience in regulated, privacy-sensitive, or healthcare-related data environments would also be helpful.
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Why they ask: Core skill.
How to answer: Ingestion, storage, orchestration, idempotency, backfills, monitoring.
Why they ask: Data correctness.
How to answer: Watermarks, dedup keys, reprocessing windows.
Why they ask: Airflow is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: Azure is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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