Senior Data Engineer (Senior Software Engineer III) at Rockerbox Full Time

Responsibilities:

• Take the lead in building scalable, resilient, well-monitored, and cost-efficient data pipelines utilizing a range of technologies
• Provide expert advice and guidance on data architecture, ensure quality and scalability through design and code reviews
• Serve as the organization’s resident expert on SQL; mentor other engineers on improving and optimizing their queries
• Provide expertise and leadership in the application of effective patterns in the data engineering codebase, bringing your extensive experience to bear
• Lead the application of effective monitoring and quality control measures, including automated testing and alerting, to ensure data integrity across all data products.
• As a tech lead, work with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to design data solutions meeting business requirements, detailed in clear technical specifications
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to improve efficiency and effectiveness in data engineering processes.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience as a data engineer, working with data warehouses, pipelines and cloud technologies (ideally AWS)
• Proficient in data modeling and architecture for distributed data warehouses and cloud solutions, with deep knowledge of the trade-offs between data warehouses, databases, and data lakes to guide informed decisions on when to use each
• Skilled in crafting modern data pipelines, both real-time and batch, with tight SLOs and complex transformations, utilizing messaging, serverless, and streaming tech
• Expert-level SQL; experience with other database paradigms (key-value stores, graph databases) is a plus
• Expert-level python; comfort working with version control and CI/CD is required; significant exposure to other languages is a plus
• Experience mentoring engineers, especially on data warehousing, pipelines, and related technology architectures, with a proven ability to simplify complex topics in both written and verbal communication
• Strong comfort level with technical project leadership and the communication skills to bring stakeholders together around a project plan and architecture, demonstrated by successful large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
• Product mindset to embrace business needs and produce scalable data/engineering solutions

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary range between $175,000 – $195,000, depending on level as determined through the interview process; Equity options
• Remote-first – work anywhere in the US
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Rockerbox Unplugged – we shut down the last week of the year
• 12 weeks Parental Leave for all parents of a new child
• Traditional and ROTH 401k options
• $1000 annual training stipend