
Staff Data Engineer – Platform
Workiva
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $129,000 - $207,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and build high-performance data solutions that directly power customer-facing features, utilizing the internal data platform (Snowflake, dbt, Kafka).
- Lead the design and delivery of complex data projects independently, from initial discovery with stakeholders to production deployment and monitoring.
- Partner with Product Managers and Business Leaders to translate customer needs into technical data requirements, ensuring "Data-as-a-Product" excellence.
- Work embedded with Application Engineering teams to advocate for upstream data quality and ensure application architectures support downstream data needs.
- Act as the "Lead Customer" for our internal Data Platform team—identifying gaps in the platform’s capabilities and contributing to its strategic roadmap based on product requirements.
- Establish and evangelize standards for data modeling, observability, and performance within the product domain.
- Design resilient, production-grade pipelines using DLT and Snowpipe that handle enterprise-scale workloads with low latency.
- Own the domain’s dbt layer, ensuring code is modular, tested, and optimized for high-performance serving in Snowflake.
- Guide and elevate Senior and Mid-level engineers on the team through code reviews, design docs, and technical coaching.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with a strong emphasis on building solutions for customer-facing products or applications.
- Proven ability to lead large-scale projects from concept to completion with minimal supervision, navigating ambiguity across multiple teams.
- Exceptional ability to evangelize data strategy to non-technical stakeholders and influence application engineers on data best practices.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, dbt, and Kafka for building real-world, high-value data products.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with a focus on building reusable libraries, automation, and CI/CD-driven workflows.
- Experience working in a SaaS product environment, understanding how data latency and accuracy impact the end-user experience.
- Advanced understanding of modeling for both analytical (OLAP) and application-support (high-concurrency) use cases.
Benefits
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
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Hard skills
data engineeringdata modelingPythonSQLdbtSnowflakeKafkaCI/CDdata pipeline designautomation
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencingevangelizingcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical coachingproject managementstakeholder engagementnavigating ambiguity