Staff Data Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for analytics data infrastructure, building and maintaining enterprise-scale curated datasets and data models.
• Own the design and implementation of data governance programs end to end, translating policy requirements into flexible, configurable infrastructure in partnership with Data Platform Engineering.
• Design and build data abstractions and analytical frameworks using SQL, Python, and modern data stack technologies.
• Develop data quality frameworks, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting at massive scale, with governance, lineage tracking, and rigorous change management.
• Drive adoption of consistent data modeling patterns, naming conventions, documentation norms, and metric governance standards across the data organization.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across product verticals and mentor engineers.
• Make sound technical decisions with incomplete information while balancing short-term delivery with long-term infrastructure investment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data and software engineering, focused on building curated, consumer-facing datasets.
• 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure used by data teams at scale.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills.
• Solid fundamentals in version control and CI/CD.
• Experience implementing data quality audits, monitoring systems, and automated remediation for massive datasets.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills, including translating ambiguous business questions into concrete metric definitions.
• Experience collaborating with Data Science, Finance, and Product teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building or contributing to a semantic layer or metrics store.
• Experience with modern analytics and data engineering tools and workflows, such as dbt and BigQuery.
• Experience defining and governing metric standards across a data organization.
• Experience with reporting infrastructure subject to external audit or SOX compliance.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $279,000–$310,000, plus equity and benefits.
• Compensation details reflect base salary only and exclude equity and benefits.