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Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Who You Are
You love to take on complex data-related problems and will help create and maintain large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines that will directly influence business decisions as well as contribute to improving the quality of our data tools and large scale data infrastructure. You have a genuine appreciation for working alongside data, business & engineering partners to get things done. You have a keen sense of the big picture and can effectively drive projects towards realistic and measurable business outcomes.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be contributing to the technical vision and long-term data strategy of the Data Services team.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Build data pipelines and related tools to achieve high level of efficiency, trustworthiness and innovation in our data stack
- Design and implement / ELT processes through cloud based solutions (Snowflake & Redshift on AWS)
- Maintain the data and cloud infrastructure using code (Terraform & AWS Serverless Application Model)
- Transform raw data into business ready datasets that are both query-able and easily understood by various business units (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Product, Eng, People Ops)
- Communicate and collaborate with partners in and out of engineering, infrastructure and data services to understand requirements and identify opportunities for improvement in our data stack
- Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
- Perform other related duties as assigned
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Senior Data Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
- Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience in data engineering, preferably with 2 years working with a modern cloud technologies (e.g. Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Databricks)
- Highly fluent in SQL and Python, with firm understanding of computer science fundamentals and distributed systems
- Experience with SQL and noSQL databases
- Strong experience working on data warehousing technologies like Snowflake, Amazon RedShift, Azure Synapse
- Expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with an emphasis on serverless technologies, infrastructure-as-code, and multi-account organizations.
- Excellent communication and technical writing skills with the ability manage stakeholders and external customers/vendors
- Experience building streaming data architectures and workflow orchestration i.e,. Kafka, Spark, Airflow, etc.
- Proficiency with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
- Experience architecting and building RESTful APIs
- Comfortable with Agile and can lead teams with agile and lean approach
- Nice to Have: Site Reliability Engineer experience and expertise in developing data architectures to support Machine learning and/or Data Science
Technologies Used
- AWS: S3, ECR, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Serverless Application Model, CloudFormation, RDS, DMS, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, MSK, Step Functions, M
