Data Engineer III

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

📋 Description

• Develop and manage comprehensive data pipelines utilizing Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, and Databricks.

• Create and uphold tested, well-documented, and reusable dbt models for the semantic layer.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product to outline requirements and establish pipeline specifications.

• Contribute to the infrastructure managed by Terraform, including Fivetran, GCP, and AWS.

• Adhere to and enhance engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, code reviews, observability, and documentation.

• Address intricate ETL and data quality challenges.

• Oversee pipeline performance for SLA compliance and engage in incident response activities.

• Implement data governance practices for personally identifiable information (PII) and compliance obligations.

• Articulate technical concepts and their feasibility to non-technical stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, demonstrating ownership over production pipelines.

• Proficient in SQL and Python; adept at writing production-grade code, troubleshooting complex pipelines, and enhancing query performance.

• Practical experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred; BigQuery or equivalent is acceptable).

• Extensive experience with dbt — has developed and maintained models within a production dbt project.

• Familiarity with orchestration tools — experience with Airflow and Fivetran is essential; knowledge of Dagster or similar is a plus.

• Proficient in Databricks and Spark for custom modeling and transformation workloads.

• Experience with AWS (Airflow, S3, Lambda) and GCP (BigQuery and related services).

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and define ambiguous requirements with stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills for conveying technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.

• Knowledge of PII management and access controls.

• Experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines.

• Participation in a collaborative team dbt project.

• Familiarity with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Professional development opportunities and training.

• Collaborative and inclusive company culture.