Senior Data Engineer, Python

About us

Kestrelmark Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software.

About the role

This is a backfill for a team member who is relocating. Data engineering role supporting analysts and data scientists. Most of the work is in dbt, Airflow and the cloud warehouse. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Montreal office Tuesday to Thursday.

What you'll work on

Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies. Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports. Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg. Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect. Manage warehouse objects, roles and spend in Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift. Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python.

You might be a good fit if you

5+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume. Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code. Strong Python for data processing. Experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Synapse). Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow. Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.

Preferred qualifications

Dbt Certified Developer or Databricks certification. Background in finance or marketing data. Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census.

Why work with us

$157,000 to $180,000 annually

Extended health and dental benefits. Group RRSP with employer matching. Paid vacation. Employee and family assistance program. Free parking. Flexible hours.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Kestrelmark Labs.