• Strong software development skills (some combination of Python, Java, Scala, Go)
• High proficiency in SQL
• Experience building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines and frameworks
• Working knowledge of dbt or similar data transformation tools
• Highly motivated self-starter that is keen to make an impact and is unafraid of tackling large, complicated problems
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences, and maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team’s success

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer II who can help design, build, and maintain frameworks and systems that acquire, validate/cleanse, and load data into our analytics systems
• This role will be foundational in our goal to scale our processes and capabilities to meet internal demand using reproducible and robust methods
• The data that this position will unlock is crucial to our company’s aggressive growth plans by helping internal teams answer previously unanswered questions about our customers, products, and usage patterns
• This position will have engagement across many parts of the company, including software engineering, product management, analytics and operations teams, and analytic engineering
• Design, build, and maintain an efficient and flexible data ingestion framework that allows internal product, engineering, and operations teams to contribute data sources (new or updated) into GCP and BigQuery
• Research, design, and lead development of an event-driven data ingestion and transformation framework
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data engineering processes, systems, and workflows
• Improve our overall observability and monitoring of data pipeline performance and resilience
• Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues to ensure downstream data availability
• Contribute to our dbt systems by making sure the source and staging layers align with our standards, are efficient, cost-effective, and highly available
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other members of our team, fostering a collaborative environment dedicated to growth and learning