Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer building pipelines, governance, and reliability for Eve’s AI-native legal technology platform. Owning Snowflake, dbt, Terraform, and ingestion infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Own ingestion through Fivetran, third-party connectors, and custom extraction
  • Own orchestration across dbt Platform and GitHub Actions
  • Own materialization strategy and model performance
  • Move critical models from nightly full rebuilds to incremental patterns
  • Build source-schema change detection and alerting
  • Establish observability with freshness SLAs, failure and drift alerting, and incident ownership
  • Respond to pipeline failures and drive upstream fixes
  • Manage pipeline compute cost and freshness-versus-spend tradeoffs
  • Share Snowflake administration, including role-based access, security and network policies, data masking, PII controls, and storage organization
  • Extend the medallion architecture and Terraform-managed footprint, including development/production separation
  • Contribute to foundational modeling patterns, conformed dimensions, shared entities, and SCD patterns
  • Build development environments and CI for analyst model contributions
  • Review analyst contributions
  • Build onboarding tooling for engineers and analysts
  • Administer the data tooling stack, access, integrations, and system connectivity
  • Use AI-assisted development, including Claude Code skills, agents, and evals
  • Document systems and processes
  • Report to the Head of Data Engineering, who reports to the CEO

Requirements:

  • 5+ years in data engineering, owning production systems other people depended on
  • Strong Python and SQL, with production experience across ingestion (Fivetran or similar), orchestration (dbt platform, GitHub Actions, or Airflow), and cloud infrastructure
  • Solid Snowflake: access control, warehouse sizing, query performance, and cost management
  • Practical dbt: incremental models, testing, macros, and a git-based workflow with CI
  • Experience building SCD tables from multiple sources
  • Comfort in a Terraform-managed environment; infrastructure changes go through code review
  • Experience building reliability practice: alerting, freshness SLAs, incident response, schema change detection
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development such as Claude Code, including agentic pipeline design and skill-based workflows
  • Comfort integrating tools via MCP servers
  • Ability to explain incidents, impact, and resolution timelines clearly to stakeholders
  • Comfort building where the playbook does not yet exist
  • Nice to have: experience in regulated or high-sensitivity data environments
  • Nice to have: streaming or near-real-time ingestion experience
  • Nice to have: exposure to Iceberg, Parquet, or unstructured data at scale
  • Nice to have: B2B SaaS experience, especially with small and mid-sized businesses or professional services firms

Benefits:

  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • 401(k) Program with Employer Matching
  • Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • Commuter Benefits (in office employees only)
  • Autonomous Work Environment
  • Workplace Setup Reimbursement
  • Telecomm Stipend
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
  • Quarterly Team Gatherings
  • In office Perks (in office employees only)