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Data Platform Engineer – Contract
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
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0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Platform Engineer – Contract
Lola Blankets
• Own our data ingestion layer end-to-end, including completing our migration to open-source ingestion tooling (dlt) and maintaining reliability as the stack evolves • Manage dbt models, tests, documentation, and the semantic layer - the definitions that determine what every metric means across the business • Own Dagster orchestration: scheduling, retries, alerting, and failure handling across all pipeline runs • Keep Lightdash metadata, dimension/measure definitions, and access controls accurate and current • Accelerate data refresh cycles to support near-real-time operational use across the business • Build monitoring, failure alerting, and anomaly detection into the stack so issues surface proactively • Chase data through systems when things go wrong: trace why records drop or transform unexpectedly between source and dashboard, and resolve the root cause rather than the symptom • Establish and document data quality standards and lineage practices across the warehouse • Partner with the Director of Strategy & Analytics — and the Technology Lead once that role is filled — on platform infrastructure, system integrations, and technical initiatives where data is a core component • Build and maintain reverse ETL pipelines to push warehouse data back into operational tools • Contribute to A/B testing infrastructure and the systems that support consistent metric definitions across the org • Own separation of dev and production environments: deployment pipelines, change management, access controls, and release practices • Maintain infrastructure documentation and ensure the platform is operable beyond any single person
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of data engineering or data platform experience - you've owned production pipelines, not just built them in a sandbox
- Strong dbt skills: models, tests, sources, exposures, and the semantic layer
- Solid Snowflake or equivalent cloud warehouse experience (MotherDuck is where we are likely to land shortly)
- Hands-on with a modern orchestration tool (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or similar)
- Strong Python or Typescript plus SQL - enough to read, debug, and write anything in the stack
- DevOps experience: you think in terms of environments, deployments, change control, and what happens when things break in production
- Open-source bias - you'd rather build and own something than pay for a managed tool that abstracts away control
- Comfortable with GenAI-assisted development: using LLMs as part of your development workflow to move faster and write better code
- Comfortable debugging data end-to-end - you can trace a wrong number back through the semantic layer, dbt models, and ingestion pipeline to the source
- Works across team boundaries comfortably; this role sits between data and engineering and requires interfacing with leaders from both teams
- Works well independently in a lean team with minimal process overhead
- Experience in DTC, ecommerce, or a fast-moving consumer business a plus
Benefits
- Fixed monthly fee, set based on experience and capabilities
- Option to convert to full-time role based on performance and organizational structure
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