Data Engineer

Who we are

GJR Data is a 5-person software shop in New York City. The founders still answer support tickets. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

The role

We are adding a Data Engineer to our operations team. The operations team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modeling and data quality checks. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

What you'll do

• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR.
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalog such as DataHub or Atlan.
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.

Nice to have

• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census.
• Background in finance or marketing data.
• Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming.

What we offer

Compensation: $142,000 - $167,000 a year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Professional development budget.
• Annual bonus.
• Life insurance.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at GJR Data LLC.