Senior Data Engineer - Zonda - Toronto, ON

CoStar Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) plan with matching

Stock purchase program

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

CoStar Group in Toronto, Ontario is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate data pipelines on a modern cloud platform. You will own end-to-end data engineering tasks from requirements through production, focused on reliability, scalability and performance.

You will work with SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, and Snowflake, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver data products and governance, with a strong emphasis on automated testing and monitoring.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Strong Python development skills for data pipelines and automation.
• Advanced SQL skills with large-scale datasets and data modeling experience.
• Experience with dbt, Airflow, and production deployment.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL and Snowflake experience in production workloads.
• Experience with AWS data services (S3, Glue, MWAA, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Knowledge of data validation, monitoring, and CI/CD practices.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain reliable data pipelines and data products.
• Develop and optimize data transformations using SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Glue, PostgreSQL, Snowflake.
• Translate business requirements into maintainable designs for production.
• Implement automated testing, data-quality checks, monitoring, and failover recovery.
• Optimize large-scale data workloads for performance and cost.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Follow Git-based development, code reviews, and CI/CD workflows.
• Document data products with metadata and lineage.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

dbt

Airflow

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS

Data validation

Git

Tools

dbt

Airflow

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Senior Data Engineer - Zonda - Toronto, Ontario

Job Description

Company Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

About Zonda

Zonda is redefining the future of housing. We are perfectly placed in the heart of the fast-growing real estate industry. We are making big bets on the future of real-estate, trailblazing a 2030 vision for the industry. Here at Zonda, you’ll be able to use your passion and curiosity to drive the next generation of real estate analysts, advisors, technologists, and marketers. Learn more about Zonda

Job Summary

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products across a modern cloud data platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on data pipeline development, performance optimization, production reliability, and continuous improvement. The Senior Data Engineer will independently own complex data engineering work from requirements through production and ensure solutions are maintainable, testable, observable, and performant. This position will be located in Toronto, Ontario and is in office Monday through Friday.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Develop and optimize data transformations and orchestrations using SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Glue, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.
• Translate business requirements into maintainable technical designs and production-ready solutions.
• Implement automated testing, data-quality checks, monitoring, failure handling, and recovery.
• Optimize large-scale data workloads for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis across pipelines and databases.
• Follow Git-based development, code review, CI/CD, and controlled release practices.
• Ensure data products are documented, observable, governed, and supported by appropriate metadata and lineage.
• Reduce technical debt, manual processes, and recurring operational issues through automation and improved design.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Application Engineering and business stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Strong Python development skills for data pipelines, automation, integrations, and supporting data applications.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large-scale datasets.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, database design, and data transformation patterns.
• Experience with dbt, including model development, dependency management, testing, incremental processing, and production deployment.
• Experience with Airflow, including DAG development, orchestration, dependencies, retries, failure handling, scheduling, and production operations.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including complex SQL development, database design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience in production data workloads context.
• Experience working with AWS data services such as S3, RDS/Aurora, Glue, MWAA, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Experience implementing automated data validation and quality controls.
• Experience with Git, pull requests, code review, conflict resolution and CI/CD workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production pipeline and data issues.
• Understanding of monitoring, failure recovery, and production support practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with datasets containing hundreds of millions or billions of records.
• Experience with AWS Glue and Amazon MWAA.
• Experience with geospatial data and PostGIS.
• Experience with SQL Server.
• Experience with DataHub or another metadata, lineage, or governance platform.
• Experience with Grafana or comparable observability tooling.
• Experience with database schema migration and version-control frameworks.
• Experience working within controlled production release and change-management processes.
• Strong hands‑on engineering capability and ownership.
• Ability to independently deliver complex data engineering solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root‑cause‑analysis skills.
• Ability to work effectively with large and complex datasets.
• Strong focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ability to balance delivery requirements with engineering quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

What's in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness centre and/or reimbursed fitness centre membership costs (location dependent)
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

Base Compensation

Base Compensation: CAD $120,000-$150,000 (annually)

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in Canada to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services.

We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers.

This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.

By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

CoStar Group is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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