Staff Data Engineer

About SimpliSafe

SimpliSafe is dedicated to home security, designing user-centric products for comprehensive protection.

About the Role

As a Staff Data Engineer on the Core Engineering Data Team, you will shape the data landscape for Product and Engineering. You will own the design, development, and curation of domain-specific data marts, ensuring their quality and empowering data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and documentation of curated data marts for Product and Engineering domains using a centralized data platform.
• Partner with data producers to understand data creation and meaning.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate needs into data requirements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to develop KPIs for tracking ML performance and impact.
• Identify areas for improvement and contribute to centralized data engineering infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce data quality and management standards for curated data marts.
• Maintain data pipelines and analytics for Product and Engineering.
• Champion data discovery, catalog, and analytics tooling.
• Advocate for best practices in analytics engineering, data stewardship, and quality.
• Contribute to the formation of our new team, developing team norms, practices, and charter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, data engineering, or a related field (3+ years building data sets from device data or similar high-volume sources).
• 5+ years working with data analytics and BI tools.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL for advanced data analysis and transformation.
• 3+ years experience in Python for data manipulation.
• Ability to develop and implement scalable data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks and data governance practices.
• Solid understanding of product and engineering development cycles.
• Passion for data and data quality.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Dagster, Airflow, or other data orchestration tools.
• Experience with query engines such as Athena and AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with data quality, catalog, and discovery tools.

What We Offer

• A mission- and values-driven culture.
• Comprehensive total rewards package.
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all individuals.