Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the warehouse, including the transforms, orchestration, and serving layer, which encompasses dashboards, reverse ETL, and agents.

• Develop dependable pipelines that integrate product events, CRM, marketing, finance, support, and additional data sources.

• Execute contracts, manage retries, enhance visibility, utilize tested models, implement metrics, conduct quality tests, perform anomaly detection, ensure lineage, establish SLAs, and manage incident processes.

• Collaborate with Engineering on events, tracking plans, data contracts, access governance, PII, and comprehensive documentation.

• Build and maintain the quality and adoption of the agent layer, which includes health monitoring, summaries of failed jobs, cost and performance indicators, draft models/tests/docs, schema-change alerts, health reports, and proposed solutions.

• Conduct platform reviews, retrospectives, SLA reporting, and prioritization sessions with Product, Analytics, and go-to-market teams.

• Ensure that there is clear ownership, thorough testing, detailed documentation, and rollback capabilities for major data products.

• Deliver end-to-end solutions as an individual contributor without direct reports.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience with hands-on production pipelines and warehouse models.

• Proficient in SQL.

• Familiarity with cloud warehouses and dbt-style transformations.

• Experience using orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar platforms.

• Proficiency in Python for automation purposes.

• Ability to design for observability, testing, incident management, and cost considerations.

• A systems-thinking perspective.

• Capability to collaborate across various functions.

• Eagerness to document and automate processes instead of managing personnel.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous company funding for health, vision, and dental plans.

• HSA/FSA plans available.

• Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage.

• Life and Personal Accident Insurance provided.

• Monthly wellness stipend of $40.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) accessible.

• Adoption Assistance offered.

• 401(k) plan available after three months, with matching contributions upon enrollment.

• Discretionary PTO along with 13 paid holidays.

• Paid parental leave and a flexible return-to-work policy.

• Employee referral program with cash incentives.

• Yearly Cipher-versary stipend provided.

• Recognition through peer and manager kudos with gift card rewards.

• Employee Resource Groups available for support.

• Access to internal webinars and comprehensive onboarding/training programs.

• Monthly reimbursement of $50 for work-from-home expenses.

• New MacBook laptop, additional hardware, and company swag provided upon hire.