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Staff Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
$190K - $280.5K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 8+ years designing and operating high-volume distributed data systems in production.
- Deep expertise with a cloud data platform (Databricks preferred) and AWS, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and Spark for large-scale processing.
- Hands-on experience with dbt and understanding of how platform decisions impact downstream modeling.
- Strong grasp of data modeling, partitioning strategies, storage formats, and analytical workload optimization.
- Experience with Airflow
- Experience with modern CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, Terraform).
- Experience designing and maintaining real-time streaming architectures
- Demonstrated ability to independently scope ambiguous problems and drive them to decisive outcomes.
- Track record of proactively escalating risks and closing long-running efforts with clear recommendations.
- Experience defining ingestion validation standards and implementing data quality controls.
- Proven ability to reduce operational fragility and eliminate single points of failure.
- Strong systems design skills across distributed and event-based architectures.
- Demonstrated technical leadership influencing cross-team architectural decisions.
- Excellent communication skills across engineering, analytics, product, and executive stakeholders.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
- Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
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