- Establish, build, and maintain sophisticated data pipelines for internal analytics and application telemetry using internal products, dbt, Airflow/Dagster, and Snowflake/RedShift/BigQuery/Presto, with a special emphasis on performance optimization and data integrity.
- Take the lead in planning architectural design sessions for the modern data stack, focusing on solutions that seamlessly integrate with our technology stack. Partner with founders and team members to deeply understand their data requirements and design solutions that include go-to-market metrics tracking, analyzing telemetry data, and building models for BI Reporting dashboards.
- Regularly use SDF CLI and Console for day-to-day tasks and play a pivotal role in testing new features. Engage with our engineering and product management teams in the conceptualization, rapid prototyping, and launch of innovative features and functionalities for SDF.
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or associated area of studies
- At least 2 years of experience of Data Engineering (strong fundamentals with ELT pipelines, workflow automation, and data quality/governance)
- 1+ years of experience with AWS RedShift, Snowflake, or GCP BigQuery
- Expertise in applying Python and SQL to execute complex data operations, customize ETL/ELT processes, and perform advanced data transformations across the platform.
- Expertise in metric definitions, and unification
- Interest in the data domain, especially knowledge of the general data landscape and other tooling/providers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
- Highly self-motivated and enjoys self-directed learning.
- Health Insurance - We provide medical, dental and vision benefits to employees and their dependents. Health benefits are paid in part by the company.
- Retirement Plan - Every employee has the option to contribute to a 401k plan because we care about the future of our employees.
- Hybrid Work Environment - Our hybrid work environment blends office collaboration with the comfort of home, offering flexibility and fun in your work life
- Mandatory Vacation - Everyone at a startup works hard. We expect all employees to take 2 solid weeks of paid time off each year.
- Trust & Flexibility - Trust is key for us. Need a break to grab coffee? Go for it. Need to leave early to grab the kids from school? No problem. Talk to us, get your stuff done, and don't forget to live your life.
- Learning and Development - We believe in investing in the development of our team. We provide coaching and mentorship opportunities to every employee.
- Skill Acquisition - On our small and collaborative team, there is opportunity to learn all aspects of development, including specialized languages/softwares such as Rust and Kubernetes.
Senior Data Engineer - Seattle, United States - SDF Labs
Description
About Us:
SDF's mission is to make the lives of data engineers and data analysts better by building a groundbreaking SQL engine with a built-in type system and automatic tools for data quality. We are rapidly growing to meet our goals of making an immediate impact as a values-driven company with a distributed team. Our team is currently distributed across Seattle, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and New York.
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer eager to take on large challenges within our greenfield product roadmap, establish internal best practices, and tackle customer requests. As one of our early hires, you will partner closely with our founders and other key engineers on the direction of our product and drive business-critical technical decisions. You will have the opportunity to ship major product initiatives that fundamentally change the way that Data Analysts and Data Engineers work.
We are working to re-define how Data Practitioners approach their work. With this, there are multiple areas of challenges. Immediate challenges include:
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
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No agencies please. SDF Labs is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.