Senior Data Engineer, The Farmer's Dog
$170-190k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office (Greenwich Village, NY)
Human-grade dog food delivery
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Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-190k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office (Greenwich Village, NY)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
Role
Who you are
- You bring 7+ years working in either a data or software engineering related field (5+ years working with data directly)
- You have 3+ years of recent experience working with GCP / AWS
- Expertise with Rest API concepts
- Experience working with DBT, airflow, or similar data processing tools
- You’re an expert in Python who is comfortable working in a production environment, and have strong SQL and No-SQL experience
- You’re familiar with patterns and architectures involved in ingestion, transformation, queueing, and querying of terabytes of data and are able to put together an entire ETL pipeline from scratch without assistance
- You have a proven track record of working very closely with technical and non-technical business departments, aligning priorities and translating ambiguous, challenging business problems into concrete and impactful products
- You bring experience with setting coding standards, performing code reviews, providing technical expertise and mentoring junior developers and have overseen project delivery by mentoring junior technical developers
- You are able to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, are naturally curious and proactive self-starter, constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and solutions
- You are an owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively, with a strong attention to detail
What the job involves
- The Farmer’s Dog is looking for a Senior Data Engineer 2 to join our growing team
- In this role, you will build production facing tools on top of a petabyte-scale warehouse, and work directly with data customers to support analytics and reporting needs
- Your work will enable data scientists, data analysts, and product teams to create and access information at a massive scale, and you will have opportunities to develop new data infrastructure and architecture from the ground up
- Own all aspects of the data, from the point it is recorded until it reaches the intended audience or user including oversight of those between 3rd parties
- Write production level code that processes millions of events per day
- Audit, design, and maintain a high-performing data pipeline architecture for structured and unstructured use cases around reporting, analytics, machine learning and data science
- Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards, best practices, tenants, and data management & governance across data and analytics engineering
- Build and scale data orchestration services that support complex analysis across the organization
- Design and implement tooling for access management, monitoring, data controls, and self-service ETL/Analytics pipelines
- Proactively explore our data for new, undiscovered anomalies in both existing and new datasets. Automating ways to identify/capture data quality issues
- Own data quality for crucial systems and serve as a primary resource for data expertise
- Define and run SLAs for datasets that support production services
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders and mentor other engineers on how to design, build, and evangelize services
- Promote knowledge sharing and industry best practices
Our take
Pet food production in the US is held to alarmingly low safety and quality standards despite being a $99 billion industry, which is hidden behind loose labeling and marketing regulations. When one of the founders of The Farmer's Dog realised that dog food was making his dog sick, they decided that dogs shouldn't be fed anything that wouldn't pass legal requirements for humans.
The Farmer’s Dog produces customised dog food packages that are sent as a regular subscription service. Recipes behind the dog food are personalised and are comprised of natural and high-quality ingredients, aiming to meet the dietary requirements of each individual dog. As the dog food is human-grade, the company even taste-tests its recipes on humans.
The startup sends millions of meals every month and boasts a continual subscription rate of almost 50%. It has raised $50 million in funding to date and is developing new pet food products and scaling to offer its subscription service outside of the US.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$65m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
SERIES C
Total funding: $168.1m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly offices
- Equity packages
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401k match
- 12-week paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO and work-from-home policy
- Discounted fresh dog food
- Your pet interrupting video calls and in-person meetings is now a feature, not a bug
Company values
- Deliver Joy: We share kindness with all, leaving people happier than before our interaction.
- Be Authentic: We’re well-intentioned and understanding in our actions, assuming the same of others.
- Seek Better: We’re sceptical of the status quo and open to new approaches.
- Act Boldly: We’d rather learn from calculated, courageous risks than miss opportunities from fear.
- Play Team: We take individual and collective ownership of progress, and show gratitude to those who help.
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jonathan Yoni Regev
(Co-founder & CEO)Graduated in Business at Berkeley, UC, and then co-founded The Farmer's Dog in 2014, serving as CEO since.
Brett Podolsky
(Co-founder)Graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Lynn University before co-founding The Farmer's Dog.
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