Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Atticus is a company dedicated to connecting people with disabilities to government benefits and providing aid to those in crisis. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own and evolve their core data infrastructure, working closely with data scientists and business analysts to ensure data is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.
Responsibilities
- Own and operate our data warehouse, pipelines, and transformation layer
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest data from across our platform and third-party sources, ensuring data is always available and trustworthy for downstream consumers
- Partner with data scientists and analysts to deliver clean, well-documented datasets and optimize query performance so teams spend less time wrangling data and more time generating insights
- Incrementally improve and modernize our existing data systems - you won't build everything from scratch, but you'll know how to assess what we have, prioritize what matters, and migrate thoughtfully
- Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and documentation practices that build trust across the organization
Skills
- 4+ years of professional experience in data engineering, ideally at a high-growth startup or fast-moving team within a larger organization
- Hands-on experience with the modern data stack - proficiency with BigQuery (or a comparable cloud warehouse), dbt, and an orchestration tool like Dagster or Airflow
- Strong SQL skills and fluency in Golang, Python, or another common Data Engineering language
- Track record of improving or modernizing data systems iteratively - you're comfortable inheriting legacy infrastructure and systems and making them progressively better
- Strong communication and collaboration skills - able to work fluidly across both technical and business-oriented teams
- Experience transitioning data infrastructure from an outsourced or contractor model to an in-house team
- Familiarity with data observability tools
- Experience supporting or collaborating with a data science function, including ML feature pipelines
Benefits
- Medical and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and their families
- 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at end-of-year)
- Free membership to OneMedical
- $600/year internet stipend
- $1,000/year reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work
- Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
- 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA
- Work remotely, and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues – usually quarterly, plus offsites
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