Lead Data Engineer

What You'll Do

• Own and operate our data warehouse, pipelines, and transformation layer
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest data from across our platform and third-party sources, ensuring data is always available and trustworthy for downstream consumers
• Partner with data scientists and analysts to deliver clean, well-documented datasets and optimize query performance so teams spend less time wrangling data and more time generating insights
• Incrementally improve and modernize our existing data systems - you won't build everything from scratch, but you'll know how to assess what we have, prioritize what matters, and migrate thoughtfully
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and documentation practices that build trust across the organization

Qualifications

Required:

• 4+ years of professional experience in data engineering, ideally at a high-growth startup or fast-moving team within a larger organization
• Hands-on experience with the modern data stack - proficiency with BigQuery (or a comparable cloud warehouse), dbt, and an orchestration tool like Dagster or Airflow
• Strong SQL skills and fluency in Golang, Python, or another common Data Engineering language
• Track record of improving or modernizing data systems iteratively - you're comfortable inheriting legacy infrastructure and systems and making them progressively better
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - able to work fluidly across both technical and business-oriented teams

Bonus / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience transitioning data infrastructure from an outsourced or contractor model to an in-house team
• Familiarity with data observability tools
• Experience supporting or collaborating with a data science function, including ML feature pipelines

Salary and Benefits

We anticipate the base salary band for this role will be between $174,000 and $230,000 in addition to equity and benefits.

• Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered
• 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at end-of-year)
• Free membership to OneMedical
• $600/year reimbursable stipend for internet service
• $1,000 reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work
• Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
• 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA