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Staff Data Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
89 days ago
Salary
$190K - $200K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Data Engineer
firsthand
• Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scaled data infrastructure, serving as a technical lead and mentor within the organization. • Directly collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to effectively gather requirements and understand business needs in order to create durable pipelines, infrastructure, and ELT models. • Align and coordinate your team's work against strategic business priorities and help define and manage the data roadmap. • Drive operational excellence by ensuring data quality through automated testing and validation. • Provide technical leadership through mentorship, architecture reviews, and maintaining high technical standards across the codebase. • Own data architecture, infrastructure, and platform improvements.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of data engineering experience, with deep expertise in technologies like Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, and Python.
- A track record with ambiguous initiatives that required breaking down complex problems, coordinating across engineering and business teams, and delivering outcomes.
- Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to represent your team's work and direction to non-technical leadership, and to translate business needs into technical strategy that others can follow.
- Experience enabling team leverage through mentorship, establishing technical standards, and guiding stakeholders through capability tradeoffs.
Benefits
- For full-time employees, our compensation package includes base, equity, and performance bonus potential.
- Our benefits include physical and mental health, dental, vision, 401(k) with a match, 16 weeks parental leave for either parent, 15 days/year vacation in your first year (this increases to 20 days/year in your second year and beyond), and a supportive and inclusive culture.
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