About the company
Our client is a business software company building tools for enterprise data exchange. Its data team develops infrastructure and analytics that support internal teams and customers.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this opportunity through the Paraform network. The position is with our client. Join as a Sr/Staff Data Engineer with broad ownership across the data function. You will work with a technical lead on platform design, customer-facing products, and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Own data infrastructure, pipelines, modeling, analytics, and governance.
- Build semantic layers, event-driven data products, and embedded analytics.
- Operate cloud data systems and participate in on-call incident response.
- Develop streaming and knowledge-management capabilities.
- Evaluate tools and keep the platform adaptable.
- Balance new initiatives with ongoing stakeholder needs.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience building and operating data platforms.
- Experience designing data pipelines as distributed systems.
- Production transformation-framework experience such as dbt.
- Hands-on cloud warehouse experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
- Cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and production reliability experience.
- Experience building customer-facing analytics and owning data systems from zero to one.
Bonus points
- Streaming or event-driven architecture experience.
- A computer science, mathematics, physics, or related technical degree.
- Experience at a startup that scaled substantially.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 190,000 to 225,000 per year.
- Equity: Competitive equity.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Health insurance.
Location and work model
- Remote, based in Canada or the United States.
- Must already be authorized to work in the country where you will be based.
- On-call and incident response responsibilities are part of the role.
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