Staff Data Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Act as the technical leader for the Data Engineering team, taking charge of architecture and design choices for essential data systems.

• Collaborate with Data Analysts, SREs, IT Engineers, and business units to clarify requirements, validate outcomes, and communicate risks, trade-offs, and timelines.

• Manage and operate Cribl’s self-hosted Prefect orchestration platform, focusing on operational hygiene, upgrades, worker management, and cost/footprint considerations.

• Oversee Cribl’s Snowflake environment, which includes data modeling, performance enhancement, cost optimization, RBAC/permissions design, tooling, and governance.

• Design, operate, and monitor data pipelines, ingestion services, integrations, and the data warehouse.

• Enhance the dbt practice, including the dbt Fusion migration, while managing warehouse costs and performance at scale.

• Develop cloud-native AWS services and infrastructure, encompassing event-driven ingestion, APIs, upsert patterns, package reuse, and infrastructure as code.

• Promote Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code methodologies with reusable modules, deployment patterns, CI integration, and operational hygiene.

• Collaborate with the Data Engineering manager to establish technical direction, roadmap, standards, and architectural trade-offs.

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level data engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, design feedback, and coaching.

• Support data science and agentic initiatives by preparing model-ready datasets, exposing features, and integrating AI/LLM workflows into production.

• Contribute to secure and compliance-oriented engineering practices in collaboration with IT/Security.

• Occasionally perform responsibilities outside standard working hours due to global time zone considerations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Profound expertise in Snowflake, including advanced data modeling, query and warehouse performance tuning, cost management, and security/RBAC design.

• Experience in a tech lead or staff-level engineer role, setting direction, driving architecture, and delivering complex systems across a team.

• Exceptional communication skills and proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across data, engineering, and business teams.

• Demonstrated history of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, code reviews, and collaborative work.

• Strong fundamentals in Python and SQL, coupled with solid experience in ELT patterns and data modeling.

• Practical experience in managing self-hosted or self-managed orchestration, with a preference for Prefect, though experience with Airflow/Dagster on personal infrastructure is acceptable.

• Comfortable with managing orchestration upgrades, worker management, and operational footprint.

• Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform or similar tools.

• Experience in building cloud applications or backend services, including APIs, ingestion services, and event-driven workflows.

• Adherence to production-grade engineering practices such as logging, alerting, versioning, and CI/CD.

• Proficiency in utilizing AI-assisted development platforms like Claude Code.

• Willingness to occasionally take on responsibilities outside of standard working hours across different time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Short-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid holidays

• Paid time off

• Fertility treatment benefit

• 401(k)

• Equity

• Cribl Corporate Bonus Program

• Remote-first work arrangement