Staff Software Engineer, Business Data

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical outcomes for a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support.
• Partner with recruiting to attract and hire top talent.
• Deliver reliable, efficient data pipelines that scale to user needs.
• Develop subject-matter expertise and manage SLAs for data pipelines and full-stack web applications supporting critical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product managers and peers to create and improve canonical datasets and data warehouses, use golden paths, and ensure trustworthy data.
• Leverage AI, LLMs, and agents at scale to produce and analyze high-quality data on ambiguous problems.
• Drive key data initiatives through the full development lifecycle, from planning through delivery, while maintaining high quality and timely completion.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment that promotes innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of experience building and operating data systems, pipelines, warehouses, infrastructure, and leading teams.
• Strong engineering background and passion for data, with experience writing and debugging pipelines using distributed data frameworks.
• Ability to investigate data inconsistencies, identify root causes, and resolve data-quality issues.
• Knowledge of a backend development language such as Scala, Java, or Go.
• Strong SQL experience.
• Customer-focused approach and ability to partner with product leaders, business stakeholders, and engineers.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration, rigorous thinking, clear communication, and sound decision-making.
• Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• Ability to foster and contribute to a healthy, inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Iceberg, Kafka, Change Data Capture, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hive Metastore, Pinot, Trino, or AWS Cloud.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience creating and maintaining data marts or warehouses for business reporting.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Go-To-Market, Sales, or Marketing teams.
• Interest in innovation and understanding how systems work, with the ability to question and direct architectural decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for leadership, users, and company-wide audiences.