Senior Data Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

As our first dedicated Senior Data Engineer, you will build and operate the pipelines, transformations, and quality controls that turn operational data into reliable datasets for reporting and analytics. You will work with BI, data science, business system owners, and Engineering to bring product data into enterprise analytics and help shape data engineering standards within Vultr’s enterprise architecture.

What You Will Do

Build and operate pipelines from operational systems into BigQuery, develop bronze, silver, and gold datasets, automate data validation and source-to-target reconciliation, and propose and implement data engineering standards for testing, deployment, security, and cost management.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will assess existing pipelines, establish repeatable engineering practices, and deliver production datasets for priority reporting needs. You will put initial quality controls and monitoring in place and demonstrate that historical source corrections are reflected accurately in downstream reporting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience, including ownership of production pipelines.
• Advanced SQL and strong Python skills.
• Production BigQuery experience, including partitioning, clustering, query performance, and cost management.
• Experience with data transformation and orchestration tools such as dbt, Airflow, Cloud Composer, Dagster, or equivalents.
• Experience extracting from operational databases and handling incremental loads, updates, deletes, backfills, and historical corrections.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling and historical data tracking.
• Experience with automated data quality checks, reconciliation, monitoring, alerting, and recovery.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Ability to work across Engineering, analytics, and business teams.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription