Data Engineer

About Orbital

Join the fastest-growing AI startup in Hyderabad: Orbital. We're a New York City startup with a major team in Hyderabad. With $4.5M in funding from Silicon Valley investors, we're building a platform that uses AI agents to help sales teams sell 10x faster. Today Orbital is trusted by public companies like Hewlett-Packard and Instacart as well as quickly growing startups like Classpass.

We have a fun, in-person culture, free lunch and dinner, and a quickly growing team in Hyderabad.

Orbital was founded in 2021 by Ani Kunaparaju and Riley Soward, who split their time between New York City and Hyderabad.

About the Role

We're hiring a hands-on Data Engineer to help build and own our core ETL systems and data pipelines. You'll work with very large datasets (100M+ rows), building reliable workflows to clean, merge, and load data from multiple sources into our unified production database.

This is a high-ownership individual contributor role with real impact on our core platform.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines in Python
• Clean, validate, transform, and merge large datasets
• Contribute to a modular ETL framework for adding new data sources
• Implement data quality checks and consistency rules
• Work with the team on schemas, merge logic, and downstream consumers
• Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot failures, and improve performance

What We're Looking For

• 25 years of hands-on Python experience
• Experience working with large datasets
• Strong SQL and solid understanding of ETL fundamentals
• Comfortable owning systems in production
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment

Nice to Have

Experience with

• Elasticsearch
• TypeScript
• AWS

Additional Perks

• Fun, high-energy startup environment
• Free lunch, dinner, and snacks
• Health insurance provided