Data Engineer II

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Position summary:

RF Software is looking for a Data Engineer II to join a small, steady team. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. We work hybrid out of Chicago, usually three days in, two days remote.

Duties:

• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect
• Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Understanding of dimensional modeling and slowly changing dimensions
• Strong Python for data processing

Preferred qualifications:

• Background in finance or marketing data
• Terraform for data infrastructure
• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census
• Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA or HIPAA data handling rules

Pay: $133,000 - $176,000 annually

Why work with us:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid holidays
• Profit sharing

RF Software provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Immediately.

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