Senior Data Engineeer

At BuildOps, we’re building software purpose-built for commercial contractors. From service to projects, we help our customers run the workflows that keep buildings, businesses, and critical infrastructure operating.
The Analytics team owns the data platform behind that software. That includes the pipelines that pull product data into Snowflake, the dbt models customers and internal teams rely on, the embedded reporting inside our product, and the secure data shares our strategic customers query from their own environments.
The work is customer-facing and high-stakes: customers run their businesses on numbers that come through our platform. We have a wide mandate and are hiring a senior engineer who wants to own meaningful parts of it.
What You'll DoCore platform & modeling work (about 70% of your time)
Build and scale ingestion: Own CDC pipelines from our operational MySQL and Postgres sources into Snowflake using Airbyte and Streamkap, plus third-party sources across the business, including recovery when things go wrong
Drive down latency: Help move us from batch toward near-real-time, using Snowflake dynamic tables, incremental dbt design, and orchestration redesign;
customers increasingly expect data within minutes, and you’ll help decide how far and how fast we can get there
Model the business: Design and maintain layered dbt models (staging, intermediate, marts) across every product domain;
getting correctness right, including history, grain, and reconciliation, matters as much as speed
Grow customer data sharing: Evolve our multi-tenant Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and our open-format (Apache Iceberg) sharing for customers on other platforms, including tenant isolation, cross-region and cross-cloud fulfillment, and schema-change contracts
Harden the platform: Build SLA, freshness, and completeness instrumentation;
mature our deployment process so we stop pausing pipelines to ship;
extend Terraform coverage of Snowflake, and keep warehouse cost and performance in check
Raise the bar: Write design docs, review code, mentor engineers, and make architecture calls that hold up over time
On-call & partner support (about 30%)
Take a full-sprint on-call rotation covering pipeline incidents, data share fulfillment, report breakages, and data accuracy escalations
Unblock product squads, Finance, CS, RevOps, and Marketing on data delivery and internal analytics
Handle Snowflake access, roles, and governance work alongside DevOps and IT
What We Look For
5+ years in data engineering, with production pipelines you’ve owned end to end
Deep Snowflake experience: warehouse sizing and performance, RBAC, and ideally data sharing, dynamic tables, or Iceberg
Strong dbt: incremental strategies, testing, layered modeling, and knowing when a full refresh will hurt you
Hands‑on CDC and ingestion experience with tools like Airbyte, Debezium, Streamkap, Fivetran, or Kafka, plus a working understanding of binlogs and replication
Airflow, preferably at production scale (MWAA is a plus)
Strong SQL and Python
Solid AWS fundamentals
Experience working in a multi‑tenant SaaS data environment
Calm, methodical incident response, and the judgment to fix problems at the right layer
Clear written communication, both for design docs and for explaining a data issue to a non‑technical stakeholder
Nice To Have
Experience with event‑sourced systems
Embedded BI (Sigma or similar), including row‑level security
Terraform for Snowflake or other data infrastructure
Data catalog and governance tooling such as Secoda, lineage, and data contracts
Real‑time analytics architecture, with an honest view of its cost tradeoffs
Using AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your daily workflow
Our Stack
Snowflake
dbt
Airflow (MWAA)
Airbyte
Streamkap
Sigma
Secoda
AWS
Terraform
Apache Iceber
GitHub
Compensation
$120,000 - $197,000 base salary range + annual bonus + stock op
What we offer
Generous equity grant, become an owner in our company!
A comprehensive benefits package
Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
One‑time work‑from‑home allowance
Hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh with hybrid work schedules and lunch provided for in‑office days
Company events and team‑building activities, both in‑person and virtual
Fast‑paced, collaborative, and dynamic work environment
Opportunities for growth and career advancement
Chance to work with cutting‑edge technology and innovative solutions
The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers
We welcome applicants from across the U.S. where we are registered to do business and able to support employment. Currently, this excludes the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming. This list is based solely on operational and compliance considerations and is reviewed from time to time as our footprint grows.
About BuildOpsJoin BuildOps, the largest commercial trade platform in the country, as we transform the multi‑billion dollar commercial contracting industry! We’re not just talking incremental improvements—we’re talking a full‑scale revolution, empowering the hardworking heroes who build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps our world running. See why contractors choose Buildops here. This is your chance to be part of a rocketship. We’re fresh off a $1 billion valuation and a $127M Series C funding round (part of over $275M raised to date) led by industry‑leading investors like Meritech Capital, BOND, and SE Ventures, backed by Schneider Electric (Reuters, TechCrunch, LA Business Journal). Our latest investors join our team of industry heavyweights like Next47, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, former Salesforce President Gavin Patterson, and Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols. Their investment is fueling our aggressive growth and our commitment to equipping contractors with AI‑driven tools to conquer chaos, boost efficiency, skyrocket profitability, and ultimately, deliver exceptional service. At BuildOps, we’re changing the game and doing the best work of our careers. You’ll be a key player in a company that’s truly making a difference for the backbone of our economy. If you’re ready to tackle big challenges, work with a passionate team, and build something extraordinary, BuildOps is the place for you.
BuildOps is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. BuildOps will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act pursuant to applicable local and state laws.
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