
Senior Data Engineer
Grafana Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$164,490 - CA$197,389 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build and maintain production quality data pipelines between operational systems and BigQuery (ingress and egress).
- Implement data quality and freshness checks and monitoring processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Maintain and contribute to our ingestion framework that leverages various purpose-built data load tool (dlt) connectors.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data engineering processes, systems, and workflows
- Maintain observability and monitoring of our internal data pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues to ensure downstream data availability.
- Contribute to our dbt systems by making sure the source and staging layers align with our standards, are efficient, cost-effective, and highly available.
- Participate in the investigation and implementation of event-driven data movement and transformation processes.
- Participate in the investigation and implementation of analytic data storage/table formats (e.g. Apache Iceberg)
Requirements
- Software development skills (some combination of Python, Java, Scala, Go)
- High proficiency in SQL
- Experience building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines using a workflow orchestration system (e.g. Prefect, Dagster, Airflow)
- Working knowledge of dbt or similar data transformation tools
- Highly motivated self-starter that is keen to make an impact and is unafraid of tackling large, complicated problems
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences, and maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team’s success.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScalaGoSQLdata ingestion pipelinesdata transformationevent-driven data movementApache Icebergdata quality checks
Soft Skills
highly motivatedself-starterproblem-solvingcommunication skillscross-team collaborationcross-functional relationships