Mixbook

Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book creation platform in the U.S., redefining how people experience their memories.

Director of Data Engineering

Data EngineerData EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2006H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

81 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAirflowAmazon Redshift

Job Description

• Own Mixbook’s data platform end-to-end, including ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and the Redshift data warehouse • Establish clear accountability, SLAs, and standards for critical datasets and business metrics • Stabilize and harden fragile pipelines, reducing data incidents and reactive firefighting • Define and enforce best practices for dbt modeling, data quality, and metric consistency. Deliver analytics-ready models that power Looker and downstream use cases. • Partner closely with Platform Engineering, Product Engineering, Data Analytics, and business stakeholders across Marketing, Product, Operations and Finance to align on priorities and tradeoffs • Act as the primary point of contact for data reliability and warehouse health at the executive level • Make pragmatic build vs. buy decisions and resist unnecessary replatforming or tool churn • Lead by building. Write and review production data engineering code. Set technical standards and architectural direction. • Enable faster, more confident analytics and experimentation by increasing trust in data • Set the stage for future data science, ML and AI capabilities once foundations are solid

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering or adjacent roles
  • Experience as a Senior / Principal Data Engineer, Lead, or hands-on Director
  • Proven track record building or stabilizing data platforms at mid-scale companies
  • Project management/backlog management experience. This person will be expected to build a 12 month roadmap and drive prioritization.
  • Deep experience with:
  • Data warehousing (Redshift or similar)
  • dbt and analytics data modeling
  • Orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, etc.)
  • Data ingestion, pipeline reliability, and observability
  • Comfortable operating with a small team and high accountability
  • Strong ownership mindset — you feel personally responsible for outcomes
  • A proven track record of improving data reliability, data quality, and metric consistency in a real business environment
  • The ability to prioritize ruthlessly and say “no” constructively when tradeoffs are required
  • Experience working through legacy data systems and incrementally improving them without disrupting the business
  • Clear, confident communication skills—especially when explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
  • An ownership mindset: you take personal responsibility for whether the data platform works or doesn’t

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits and perks to support your well-being

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