The role

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be responsible for spreading best data engineering practices within the organization and in the team. You will support us in designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure, with special focus on flexibility and scalability. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging data-related problems and to have a great impact on the organization. If you'd like to know more about our Data team and the current Data Mesh architecture we are building, please watch our team's talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajgmjWevOoY&t=2473s

What you'll do

Supporting us with moving to a data mesh architecture
Defining standard working methods and processes to be respected by all chapter members, e.g., best practices in developing data pipelines, data architectures, testing, and deploying changes, documentation standards
Enabling quick and accurate decision-making within the teams by facilitating discussions
Creating and coordinating communities
Coaching and mentoring data engineers in order to support their growth
Setting and spreading best practices for Data Engineering across the organization
Providing solutions for complex business problems, enabling insights that can empower better decision-making
Collaborating with our Senior Director of Data Engineering and our VP Data on strategic projects

What you'll bring

You are a strong data engineer having worked with Kafka, the Hadoop Ecosystem (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark), with cloud based services (AWS S3, EMR, Glue) and with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
You bring hands-on experience in creating and managing an enterprise-scale Data Platform, while setting best practices for security, privacy, monitoring & alerting, and CI/CD (ideally, e.g., Azure, Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Jenkins, Concourse, Airflow, Tableau, Alation)
You have coached and mentored team members in previous roles
You leverage data to prioritize your work and to influence others
You have managed senior stakeholders in complex organizations and in changing environments
You are willing to implement change and improvements when seeing an opportunity

What we offer

Competitive Salary & 401k company match that vests immediately upon participation
Generous parental leave of 16 weeks & PTO policy
$0 monthly premium and other flexible health plans effective first day of employment
75% discount on your subscription to HelloFresh (as well as other product initiatives)
Snacks, cold brew on tap & monthly catered lunches
Company-sponsored outings & Employee Resource Groups
Collaborative, dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company