Senior Data Engineer (Senior Software Engineer II)
Rockerbox empowers marketing executives to confidently make data-driven decisions, helping brands such as Tula, Figs, and Burton with the strategic decision-making that drives growth. To do so, Rockerbox offers a unique suite of product lines that centralize data and offer diversified measurement methodologies. The foundation of Rockerbox's solution is data centralization. Atop this foundation, the platform enables marketers to choose from a range of measurement methodologies, giving customers the flexibility to choose the most appropriate approach for their specific needs and questions.
Rockerbox's Integrations team is primarily responsible for mission-critical data pipelines that ingest our customers' marketing data from 3rd Party APIs. Additionally, the Integrations team owns systems that deliver value directly to customers through data collection, validation, aggregation, and delivery.
Successful candidates will bring expertise in the AWS environment (Redshift) and Kubernetes (K8s) as well as deep Python expertise.
Beyond technical acumen, we are looking for candidates who are passionate about contributing to a team-focused, dynamic environment, eager to influence our product's evolution as we expand our reach to thousands of customers.
Responsibilities:
Scope and own projects related to building scalable, resilient, well-monitored, and cost-efficient data ingests and pipelines
Share knowledge with other engineers through design and code reviews
Maintain and improve the application of effective patterns in the engineering codebase
As a tech lead, work with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to design solutions meeting business requirements, detailed in clear technical specifications
Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to improve efficiency and effectiveness in engineering processes.
Requirements:
7+ years of experience as a data engineer and extensive experience working with AWS services
Prior experience working in Redshift
Prior experience working with Kubernetes (K8s)
Experience with ingesting data from third party APIs is preferred
Experience with modern orchestration tools (eg: Airflow) is preferred
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (eg: Terraform) is preferred
Some experience mentoring engineers; desire to apply expertise to mentorship situations, especially on data warehousing, pipelines, and related technology architectures
Ability to simplify complex topics in both written and verbal communication
Technical project leadership experience and the communication skills to bring stakeholders together around a project plan and architecture, demonstrated by successful large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
Product mindset to embrace business needs and produce scalable data/engineering solutions
Why you’d love us:
If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact within a growing, low-ego tech startup that alleviates a significant client pain point, Rockerbox is the place for you. You’ll take on ownership of projects end-to-end to deliver value against our product roadmap - with our fast, iterative release schedule, you will see the result from your efforts materialize quickly. Not least, you’ll work alongside colleagues who have a (sometimes wacky) sense of humor and who support each other to continually improve. We genuinely like each other as people, and work together to make good things happen for all of us.
Compensation and Benefits
$175,000 base; Equity options
Remote-first - work anywhere in the US
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Unlimited PTO
10 Paid Holidays
Rockerbox Unplugged - we shut down the last week of the year
12 weeks Parental Leave for all parents of a new child
Traditional and ROTH 401k options
$1000 annual training stipend
Rockertreat! Annual company get-together
Rockerbox is a remote-first, equal opportunity employer. We actively encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds, and we are accepting candidates based anywhere in the United States.
Please note that we are not able to accommodate C2C candidates for this role.
