Senior Data Engineer (Senior Software Engineer II)
Rockerbox empowers marketing executives to confidently make data-driven decisions, helping brands such as Tula, Figs, and Burton with strategic decision-making that drives growth. To do so, Rockerbox offers a unique suite of products that centralize data and provide diversified measurement methodologies. The foundation of Rockerbox's solution is data centralization, allowing marketers to choose from a range of measurement approaches best suited for their specific needs and questions.
The Rockerbox Integrations team is primarily responsible for mission-critical data pipelines that ingest customers' marketing data from third-party APIs. Additionally, the team manages systems that deliver value directly to customers through data collection, validation, aggregation, and delivery. Successful candidates will bring expertise in the AWS environment (Redshift) and Kubernetes (K8s), along with deep Python expertise. Beyond technical skills, we seek candidates passionate about contributing to a team-focused, dynamic environment and eager to influence our product's evolution as we expand to thousands of customers.
Responsibilities:
- Scope and own projects related to building scalable, resilient, well-monitored, and cost-efficient data ingests and pipelines
- Share knowledge with other engineers through design and code reviews and maintain and improve engineering codebase patterns
- As a tech lead, work with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to design solutions meeting business requirements and prepare clear technical specifications
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in engineering processes
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a data engineer with extensive experience working in AWS services
- Prior experience working with Redshift and Kubernetes (K8s)
- Experience with ingesting data from third-party APIs and modern orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) is preferred
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) is preferred
- Some experience mentoring engineers and a desire to apply expertise in mentorship situations, particularly in data warehousing, pipelines, and related technology architectures
- Ability to simplify complex topics in both written and verbal communication
- Technical project leadership experience with strong communication skills to collaborate effectively across multiple teams
- Product mindset to embrace business needs and produce scalable data/engineering solutions
Why You’d Love Us:
- Contribute to a growing, low-ego tech startup making a significant impact on alleviating client pain points
- Own projects end-to-end and deliver value against our product roadmap with a fast, iterative release schedule
- Collaborate with colleagues who support and enjoy working together, fostering a positive, fun, and humorous work environment
Compensation and Benefits:
- $175,000 base salary; Equity options
- Remote-first—work anywhere in the US
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Unlimited PTO and 10 Paid Holidays
- Rockerbox Unplugged—company shutdown the last week of the year
- 12 weeks Parental Leave for all new parents
- Traditional and ROTH 401k options
- $1000 annual training stipend
- Rockertreat! Annual company get-together
Rockerbox is a remote-first, equal-opportunity employer. We actively encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds and accept candidates based anywhere in the United States.
Please note that we are not able to accommodate C2C candidates for this role.