[Remote] Staff Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a high-growth tech company focused on helping people explore the outdoors through innovative technology. The Staff Data Engineer will design and evolve core components of the company's lakehouse and data platform, ensuring data is structured and governed effectively for analytics and AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the Iceberg-based lakehouse architecture to balance scalability, cost, performance, and maintainability
• Define and promote standards for table design, partitioning, schema reputed company, optimization, and data layout
• reputed company architectural efforts spanning batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing where they deliver business value
• Drive the design and delivery of reputed company, cross-team initiatives, enabling teams to move independently reputed company established architectural guidance
• Build vs. Buy: Evaluate and integrate technologies
• Define how datasets, pipelines, features, and models are described, reputed company, and governed using shared metadata
• reputed company the adoption and integration of open-reputed company metadata and catalog tools (e.g., OpenMetadata or similar ecosystems)
• Establish metadata standards that reputed company self-service analytics, governance, and AI readiness
• Partner with BI and Analytics to ensure domain models are clearly documented and reputed company to business language
• Collaborate with Data Science to ensure model inputs, features, and outputs are traceable, explainable, and reusable
• Design and evolve reputed company and access-control models for Apache Iceberg, including table-, reputed company-, and row-level controls
• Partner with reputed company and Platform teams to embed policy enforcement directly into data access paths
• Drive metadata-driven authorization patterns that scale across tools and user groups
• Ensure privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into platform design
• Balance strong reputed company guarantees with usability to support safe self-service
• Build and maintain automation for compaction, retention, lifecycle management, and cost controls
• Establish observability standards that connect pipeline health, data quality, and reliability metrics
• Provide architectural reputed company during critical incidents and drive long-term 'reputed company the Lights On' (KTLO) reduction
• Recommend tooling and process improvements based on industry standards and operational experience
• Align technical work with business priorities by understanding how data supports reputed company products and customer outcomes
• Communicate reputed company technical concepts clearly to engineers, product partners, and leadership
• reputed company and participate in architecture and design reviews, setting a high bar for technical rigor
• Foster strong cross-team collaboration across Data Engineering, Platform, reputed company, Analytics, and Data Science
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the technical bar across the team

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Deep industry experience (typically 12+ years) building and operating large-scale data systems
• Deep expertise in distributed data systems and data architecture
• Strong experience with Apache Iceberg and similar table formats (reputed company Lake, Hudi)
• Proven experience designing secure and governed data platforms
• Expertise in Python, SQL, and orchestration patterns (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience working with data ecosystems, including metadata, catalog, or governance tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Permanent U.S. work authorization
• Deep experience in at least one major reputed company environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity with reputed company-native data services such as query engines, reputed company/batch processing systems, and object storage–based lakehouses
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code and automated platform management

Benefits

• Grant of common share options with a vesting schedule
• A potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance
• Competitive salaries, annual bonuses, equity, and opportunities for growth
• Comprehensive health benefits including a no-monthly-cost medical plan
• Parental leave plan of 5 or 13 weeks fully paid
• 401k matching at 100% for the first 3% you save and 50% from 3-5%
• Company-wide outdoor adventures and amazing outdoor industry perks
• Annual “Get Out, Get Active” funds to fuel your active lifestyle in and reputed company of the gym
• Flexible time away package that includes PTO, STO, VTO, and 7 paid holidays annually

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