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Data Engineer
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113 days ago
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Job Description
Data Engineer
Chord
This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Data Engineer, you will: - Build and maintain scalable, best-in-class data infrastructure and pipelines that serve as core components of a multi-tenant data platform. - Ensure our data pipelines and data warehouse are optimized for accuracy, performance, and accessibility. - Manage architecture frameworks and participate in the development of data, experimentation, and analytics solutions in collaboration with cross-functional partners in the Product and Engineering organizations. - Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it. - Test and clearly document data assets and warehouse implementations to enable others to understand the implementation and definition of data methodologies easily. - Design data integrations and a data quality framework. - Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to develop a strategy for long-term data platform architecture. Qualifications - Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and optimize core data infrastructure at scale in a multi-tenant environment. - A propensity to independently identify opportunities for optimization and drive forward high-impact projects with minimal guidance. - Proficiency in SQL and strong programming skills in Python, with experience in Bash scripting for automation and workflow management. - Deep knowledge and experience with Snowflake and advanced features like Snowpipes, storage integrations, stages, streams, tasks. - Experience with the AWS ecosystem and securely deploying and managing applications using serverless tools like ECS and Lambda. - Experience building and maintaining custom ingestion pipelines using tools like dlt or requests. - Ingest data from third-party APIs and custom ingestion pipelines with Dagster and Snowflake (Snowpipe, streams, and tasks). - Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (Dagster or similar tooling like Airflow or Prefect) and data transformation tools (dbt). - Experience with DataOps tools, such as Docker, GitHub Actions, and Terraform. - Experience with AI or ML is a plus. Requirements - Excited to build foundational data infrastructure that powers many e-commerce brands. - Energized by the opportunity to abstract repeated data problems into platform-level solutions. - Passionate about working cross-functionally across engineering, product, and data teams. - Motivated by working in a fast-paced and iterative environment. - Excited by the opportunity to be an early, critical member of a rapidly growing organization. - Personally aligned with our mission to make commerce accessible. Benefits - An investment in your physical and mental well-being; we offer 100% employee Medical Benefits coverage, with 69% dependent coverage. - Flexible PTO; we encourage you to take the time you need to be your best self at work. - An onboarding package and annual work from home stipend to ensure you have everything you need to be successful while working remote. - Generous Parental Leave with customizable transition back to work program. - The benefits of working from home, with opportunities to spend quality time with the team at Chord in-person events throughout the year. - To make an impact! We’re an early-stage company, which means there is space to champion ideas, and create and lead initiatives at any level in the Organization. - This is a full-time, salaried position that includes Equity.
Job Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and optimize core data infrastructure at scale in a multi-tenant environment.
- A propensity to independently identify opportunities for optimization and drive forward high-impact projects with minimal guidance.
- Proficiency in SQL and strong programming skills in Python, with experience in Bash scripting for automation and workflow management.
- Deep knowledge and experience with Snowflake and advanced features like Snowpipes, storage integrations, stages, streams, tasks.
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem and securely deploying and managing applications using serverless tools like ECS and Lambda.
- Experience building and maintaining custom ingestion pipelines using tools like dlt or requests.
- Ingest data from third-party APIs and custom ingestion pipelines with Dagster and Snowflake (Snowpipe, streams, and tasks).
- Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (Dagster or similar tooling like Airflow or Prefect) and data transformation tools (dbt).
- Experience with DataOps tools, such as Docker, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
- Experience with AI or ML is a plus.
- Excited to build foundational data infrastructure that powers many e-commerce brands.
- Energized by the opportunity to abstract repeated data problems into platform-level solutions.
- Passionate about working cross-functionally across engineering, product, and data teams.
- Motivated by working in a fast-paced and iterative environment.
- Excited by the opportunity to be an early, critical member of a rapidly growing organization.
- Personally aligned with our mission to make commerce accessible.
Benefits
- An investment in your physical and mental well-being; we offer 100% employee Medical Benefits coverage, with 69% dependent coverage.
- Flexible PTO; we encourage you to take the time you need to be your best self at work.
- An onboarding package and annual work from home stipend to ensure you have everything you need to be successful while working remote.
- Generous Parental Leave with customizable transition back to work program.
- The benefits of working from home, with opportunities to spend quality time with the team at Chord in-person events throughout the year.
- To make an impact! We’re an early-stage company, which means there is space to champion ideas, and create and lead initiatives at any level in the Organization.
- This is a full-time, salaried position that includes Equity.
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