Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer responsible for designing and deploying scalable data infrastructure, orchestration models, and analytics tooling to enable data-driven decisions, ML products, and enterprise reporting at Vanta. Requires 4+ years data experience, software engineering mindset, modern data stack proficiency, and passion for secure, compliant data systems.
About the job
What you’ll do as a Senior Data Engineer at Vanta
- Design and deploy data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions
- Design and implement complex data orchestration models, modeling metadata, scaling reporting tools for data science and ML products users
- Be the company’s expert on data administration, data management and scalable data systems
- Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses
- Work with the Product and Enterprise Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise
- Help maintain CDC pipelines to power customer reporting
- Help develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide
How to be successful in this role
- Have at least four years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field
- Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster)
- Have good working knowledge of AWS data infra systems and Terraform
- Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Data Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries
- Deep knowledge of crafting dimensional and fact models in modern data fashion
- Have a passion for enabling the developer experience of data, and being obsessed with giving data super powers across the company
- Desire to lead the industry in security, anonymization, and compliance management when it comes to data warehousing
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
What you can expect as a Vanta’n
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Skills
SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, AWS, Terraform, Fivetran, Stitch, Cdc, Dimensional Modeling, Fact Modeling
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