Senior Data Developer

Vidyard; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is looking for a Senior Data Developer to enhance data pipelines and optimize tools. You'll have a significant impact on product features and collaborate with various teams. The role offers flexible hours and a comprehensive benefits package, including mental health support and paid volunteer hours. This position is remote and open to candidates located in Canada.

Benefits

Flexible hours and unlimited vacation

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

Mental health support

Paid volunteer hours

Qualifications

• Experience in debugging and utilizing monitoring tools like Rollbar and Datadog.
• Comfortable with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes and modern front-end stacks.

Responsibilities

• Lead key projects enhancing the data pipeline and roadmap.
• Promote the adoption of tools by creating comprehensive guides.
• Ensure high standards in code development and review.

Skills

Data Engineering Expertise (5+ Years of Experience)

Data Modeling Expertise

Execution & Delivery Ownership

Communication & Engagement

Collaboration Across Teams

Quality & Throughput Leader

Lean & Experimental

Mentor & Role Model

Debugging expertise

Strong foundation in monitoring

Tools

AWS RDS

Kinesis

Fivetran

Redshift

Druid

AWS S3

DBT

Cube

Census

Airflow

Job description

Vidyard is looking for a Senior Data Developer to join our Data Platform team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development, you'll play a key role in advancing our Company Data System, enhancing data pipelines, and optimizing tools. You'll work with technologies like Druid, Redshift, DBT, Cube, and Metabase, focusing on data collection, modeling, and activation.

Collaborating closely with a dynamic team of developers, data architects, and a product manager, you'll also engage with various stakeholder teams including R&D, Marketing, Finance, and RevOps. This position offers also the chance to use your expertise and collaborative skills to significantly impact product features such as Analytics, Notifications, Data Privacy Compliance (GDPR, etc), and Integrations, fostering a platform and builder experience approach.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada.

About the Team

The Data Platform team’s mission is to enable all sorts of different teams within the company to make data driven decisions. We do this by building, enhancing, maintaining and supporting platform capabilities within data, tracking, and analytics based infrastructure and features.

While our primary focus is on enabling data driven decisions for teams within Vidyard, we always have Vidyard customers top of mind too. We strive to deliver user value quickly and iteratively, and in a way that drives business health and growth.

Recent projects include rearchitecting our Data Warehouses to simplify and enable better product decision making, and refactoring/improving our video analytics collection.

What You’ll Work On

• Leading key projects enhancing our data pipeline and roadmap while assessing cutting-edge technologies.
• Promoting the adoption of internally developed tools through engaging with users, creating comprehensive guides, and ensuring the tool integrates well with existing systems.
• Ensuring code development and review meet our high standards.
• Participating in our incident management process. This includes addressing incidents, ensuring swift resolutions, and conducting thorough root cause analyses.
• Integrating cost-effectiveness and security considerations into our data practices, ensuring our infrastructure is not only scalable and efficient but also secure and economically viable.

What You’ll Bring to this Role

• Data Engineering Expertise (5+ Years of Experience): You confidently dive deep into Data Systems.
• Data Modeling Expertise: You're skilled at designing and implementing data models that are robust, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Execution & Delivery Ownership: You’re able to scope large initiatives into clear milestones, estimate timelines, and keep work visible.
• Communication & Engagement: You exhibit exceptional clarity in communication and presence in both async and live discussions.
• Collaboration Across Teams: You are able to work closely with R&D and RevOps teams to build a robust Company Data System.
• Quality & Throughput Leader: You consistently contribute high-quality code and reviews, maintaining steady throughput while raising team standards.
• Lean & Experimental: You take an iterative, value-driven approach, experimenting to find solutions quickly while managing risk.
• Mentor & Role Model: You share knowledge freely, guide teammates, and model best practices.
• Data System tools such as AWS RDS, Kinesis, Fivetran, Redshift, Druid, AWS S3, DBT, Cube, Census, BI Tools.
• Debugging expertise and familiarity with monitoring tools like Rollbar, Datadog.
• Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails.
• Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Familiarity with data lineage and cataloging solutions.
• Strong foundation in monitoring, observability, and scaling distributed data pipelines.
• Comfortable utilizing AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling - e.g. Terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern front-end stacks.

Why You’ll Love Working at Vidyard

At Vidyard, we’re passionate about creating an environment where you can succeed—both personally and professionally.

• Work-life Integration: Enjoy the freedom of flexible hours and unlimited vacation.
• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Start day one with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
• Wellness Your Way: Leverage flexible spending accounts to spend on what matters most.
• Mental Health Support: Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform.
• Parental Leave Top-Up: Support when it matters most, with enhanced parental leave benefits.
• Make an Impact: Enjoy paid volunteer hours to support the causes you care about.
• Invest in Your Growth: Regular performance reviews, individual development plans and an annual allowance of $1,500.
• Your Perfect Workspace: Choose between the comfort of your home or our collaboration space.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer.