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About This Role

We are looking for a Data engineer to join our small but mighty Data team. This role presents an extremely rare and unique opportunity to influence the architecture and tools that power our data analytics and reporting capabilities. You'll be at the intersection of engineering, product, and data, leading the integration of our product, financial, and business systems. If you are passionate about data modeling and solving complex data problems, we want to hear from you!

Tech stack

Core tools: BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran, Hightouch, Segment, Amplitude, Omni

Periphery tools: Salesforce, Hubspot, Gong, Vitally

Your responsibilities:

• Data workflows: Own, build, and maintain data pipelines, ETL/reverse-ETL processes and BigQuery environment.
• Data quality: Implement an orchestration tool. Design a suite of tests and validations to ensure data consistency, accuracy, and integrity.
• Data modeling: Develop reliable and lasting data models, while optimizing for scale.
• Documentation: Catalog and document all aspects of our data pipelines. Create the foundation for a data governance program.
• Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that align with downstream use cases.
• Data leadership: Establish data engineering best practices and serve as a subject matter expert on our data architecture, models, and systems.

Is this you?

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a data engineering role, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Expert in SQL, dbt, and Python.
• Advanced knowledge of data engineering tools, frameworks, and languages (e.g., Airflow, Airbyte, Kafka, GitHub workflows).
• Experience working with services in cloud environments (e.g., AWS or GCP).
• Care deeply about data quality, integrity, and security.
• Thrive in ambiguity and can create paved roads from dirt paths.
• Bonus points if you have experience with product event/attribute tracking design and implementation.

Additional qualities include high intellectual curiosity, proactive communication skills, relationship management across departments, and alignment with our values of connect, challenge, own.

Benefits & Perks (US Full-time Employees)

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks).
• Fertility and family planning support.
• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options.
• Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution.
• Annual work-life stipends for home office setup, wellness, learning, and development.
• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites.
• Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k.

WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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