Data Engineer II

About Bestow
Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven, results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace, meaningful benefits, substantial growth opportunities, and equity. Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

About The Team
The Bestow Data Engineering team plays a significant role within the organization, providing scalable data solutions across the company and toward integrations with external partners. The team collaborates closely with internal analytics members to improve data architecture and support data science predictions. Additionally, data engineers partner with stakeholders from product and engineering to design and launch systems for extracting, transforming, and storing data. You’ll work on enhancing data reliability, efficiency, and quality while scaling solutions in a SaaS cloud environment.

About The Role
In this role, you will:

• Build robust solutions for transferring data between first and third-party applications and our data warehouse.
• Drive data quality and availability through high collaboration with team members, embracing shared responsibility for design considerations.
• Develop hardened and repeatable (CI/CD) data models and pipelines for reporting, modeling, and machine learning.
• Enhance data availability for our enterprise clients using various delivery methods such as API and event-driven approaches.
• Ensure data quality via automated monitoring and, occasionally, participate in an on-call rotation.
• Leverage Google Cloud (GCP) tools and services, including Cloud Run, Cloud Function, Vertex AI, and Apache Airflow, to productionize data workloads.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, stakeholders, and data teams to provide informed solutions for platform and client needs.

This role reports to VP, Data Analytics and is open to candidates in Dallas, TX, or remote (US).

Your Experience
You should have:

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering supporting incoming/outgoing feeds and analytics/data science teams.
• 2+ years of experience in Python (or similar) with a focus on writing efficient, testable, and readable code.
• Deep SQL experience with columnar databases like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, or Amazon Redshift.
• Comfort with designing end-to-end data pipelines in cloud frameworks (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Hands-on experience in building CI/CD pipelines for data processing using tools like Docker, CircleCI, and git.
• Expertise in managing infrastructure using IAC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience with data orchestration tools like Apache Airflow for managing SLOs and processing dependencies.
• Background in building streaming/real-time ingestion pipelines and creating alerts/monitoring for data governance.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies and cloud architecture features.
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices, including identity and access management (IAM) and data protection.
• Adaptability to learn new technologies as required.

Nice to have:
Experience with data contracts, data lakes, and API development.

TOTAL REWARDS
At Bestow, we’re proud to support our team members and foster an innovative culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role.
• Policies that support work/life balance, including flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Lifestyle stipend for your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexible work-from-home policy, with remote options available, as well as a modern office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum.

Recent Employer Awards Include
Best Place for Working Parents 2023, Great Place to Work Certified (2022, 2023, 2024), Built In Best Places to Work (2022, 2023), Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas (2022, 2023), Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance (2022, 2023).

We value diversity at Bestow and will recruit, hire, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to creating a safe and comfortable work environment while encouraging authenticity among our team members.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow.