Staff Data Engineer

Role Overview

• Identify structural weaknesses and eliminate operational fragility.
• Define clear ingestion, validation, and testing standards across the platform.
• Drive ambiguous initiatives from concept to production-ready outcomes.
• Produce decisive technical artifacts and recommendations that enable leadership decisions.
• Raise the engineering bar across CI/CD, observability, cost efficiency, and documentation discipline.

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.

Tech Stack

• Airflow
• AWS
• Cloud
• Python
• Spark
• SQL
• Terraform

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.