[Remote] Senior Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and evolve their data platform, focusing on scalable pipelines, data warehouse architecture, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines and systems across our stack
• Build frameworks and standards that ensure data is accurate, well-documented, and trustworthy at every layer
• Continuously evaluate and improve our solutions - optimizing for performance, cost, and scalability while bringing best practices and a forward-thinking approach to every decision
• Partner with Data Science, Analytics, and business teams to develop pipelines, data models, metric definitions and semantic layers and ensure the data is consistent and accurate
• Recognize when to move fast with a pragmatic solution and when to invest in building the right system - and communicate those tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders
• Embrace AI-assisted development workflows, stay current on tooling, and help the team continuously raise the bar

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics or a closely related field
• Strong SQL and Python skills; comfortable working across the full data stack
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling and platforms - Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks or Redshift
• Experience building data pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
• Experience with change data capture and event-driven data patterns
• Solid understanding of modern warehouse and lakehouse architecture, data modeling fundamentals including Kimball dimensional modeling and medallion design patterns
• Experience with data quality frameworks, and governance practices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with AI-driven development tools (Cursor, Copilot, or similar) integrated into day-to-day engineering workflows is a bonus!

Benefits

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
• Paid Parental Leave
• Stock options
• Health + wellness reimbursements
• PTO that increases each year
• 15 paid holidays, including your birthday!
• As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive.

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