Data Engineer — Japan's Largest AI Corporate Data Platform | Full Remote | $1,000-$2,500/month

Data Engineer at SalesNow

8 billion data points. 14 million companies. 2.3 million records updated daily. Sub-minute refresh.

SalesNow is Japan's largest AI corporate data platform. We structure and deliver real-time corporate intelligence — hiring signals, funding rounds, organizational changes, press releases — across Japan's entire business landscape. Our data feeds AI agents, MCP Servers, CRM integrations, and enterprise workflows.

AI models are commodities. The moat is data. We need data engineers who can make that moat wider.

Why This Role

• Scale that doesn't exist locally: 8 billion data points, 42+ data sources, sub-minute differential refresh
• AI is the operating system, not a side project: 20+ AI pipelines in production. MCP Server live. Claude Code MAX provided ($200/month value)
• Japan's AI revolution, from your desk: $156B AI market growing at 34.4% CAGR
• Your code has direct impact: Pipelines you build feed AI products used by enterprise clients

What You'll Build

• Large-scale data collection pipelines processing 2.3M+ daily updates
• dbt transformation models converting raw data into SalesNow's unified schema
• Airflow-orchestrated DAGs across collection, transformation, enrichment, and delivery
• Data quality monitoring with SLAs for accuracy, completeness, and freshness
• Entity resolution and deduplication across 42+ heterogeneous sources
• AI pipeline integration via MCP Server for real-time AI agent data consumption
• PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch optimization for 8B records at millisecond speed

Tech Stack: Python (FastAPI) | SQL | dbt | Airflow | PostgreSQL | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | AWS | Amazon Bedrock | Claude | Gemini | Claude Code MAX | Cursor | CodeRabbit | GitHub Actions

Requirements

• 2+ years professional data engineering (production pipelines, not PoCs)
• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect)
• Relational database experience at scale
• Professional English (all engineering work in English)
• Nice to have: Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, dbt, web scraping at scale, AWS, Japanese (JLPT N3+)

AI-Native Development Culture

• Claude Code MAX — company-paid for every engineer, Day 1
• Monthly AI tool budget per person (additional to Claude Code MAX)
• CodeRabbit automated PR reviews
• CEO builds production AI pipelines with Claude Code
• All 61 employees practice vibe coding — including business teams
• No "AI committee" gatekeeping. Ship it

Compensation

• $1,000 – $2,500 USD/month based on experience
• Full-time remote via EOR (Employer of Record) with local labor law benefits
• 100% remote — HCMC, Hanoi, Da Nang, anywhere
• Fixed 8-17 ICT
• MacBook provided
• Performance reviews every 6 months
• Career path: DE → Senior DE → Lead DE → Data Architect

About SalesNow

Pre-Series B | ¥650M raised | 61 employees | Japan's largest AI corporate data platform Mission: "Create systems where everyone can thrive."

SalesNow is an equal opportunity employer.