Key skills
AWSETLPySparkPythonSQLTerraformUnityELTData EngineeringDatabricksS3IAMPerformance OptimizationLeadershipMentoringCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- As Staff Data Engineer, you will provide senior onshore technical leadership for the data engineering team.
- You will own a defined slice of our centralized Databricks data platform with full accountability for decisions and delivery.
- Serve as a technical counterpart to the Principal Data Platform Engineer.
- Drive architectural judgment and independent problem-solving as platform complexity scales post-migration.
- Build and maintain production data pipelines within the patterns and governance established by the Lead Data Platform Engineer, ensuring reliability and performance at multi-terabyte scale.
- Exercise architectural judgment on data modeling, pipeline design, and platform usage.
- Engage proactively with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years in data engineering with demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end without close direction
- SQL, Python, and PySpark—production pipeline implementation and performance optimization
- Databricks experience—Delta Lake, Workflows, and Databricks SQL; Unity Catalog familiarity preferred
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale, including error handling, monitoring, and data quality validation
- Strong data modeling skills across structured and semi-structured data sources
- AWS experience (S3, IAM, VPC) with ability to collaborate on infrastructure decisions
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with data governance patterns (Unity Catalog, data lineage, access controls)
- Demonstrated ability to exercise independent architectural judgment—not just ticket execution
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior and mid-level data engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication—able to document architecture decisions and engage directly with both technical and business stakeholders
- Onshore (US-based)—role requires timezone overlap, async-light communication, and direct stakeholder engagement.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- ETL
- PySpark
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
- Unity
Benefits
- A collaborative team culture with opportunities for career development.
- Ample opportunities to be recognized, build valuable skills, and grow your career.
- Generous vacation policy, including paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive health plans with FSA and HSA options.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Life and disability insurance coverage.
- Supplemental benefits like a dependent care savings plan, pet insurance, will preparation, and an employee assistance program.