Data Engineer: Build AI Pipelines + Unlimited PTO & Stock

Wingstop Restaurants Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Volunteer day

Bonus program

Stock purchase plan

Health savings account

401k plan

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

Pet insurance

Education assistance

Wellness reimbursement

Maternity/Paternity leave

Lunch in office

Gift card discount

Game room

Job summary

Wingstop Restaurants Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer based in Dallas, TX to build and maintain pipelines feeding enterprise analytics and AI.

You will develop ingestion workflows, model data for analytics, and keep production pipelines reliable, collaborating with data scientists, BI developers, and engineers. You will work in a hands-on role with opportunities to grow, contributing to data quality, governance, and scalable platform improvements while supporting Wingstop's data-driven decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 1+ years of data engineering building and supporting production pipelines
• Strong SQL and working proficiency in Python
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse — Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift
• Experience with dbt or comparable transformation tooling
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Familiarity with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda) or a comparable cloud
• Understanding of data modeling fundamentals and dimensional design
• Git-based workflows and exposure to CI/CD
• API and file-based integration experience
• Exposure to streaming technologies is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines from source systems into the analytics platform
• Develop transformation logic and analytical data models for BI and data science consumption
• Monitor pipeline health; troubleshoot and resolve data issues and job failures
• Implement data quality checks and validation across critical datasets
• Write clean, tested, documented code and participate in code review
• Support onboarding of new data sources and third‑party integrations
• Partner with BI developers and analysts to understand and meet data requirements
• Contribute to platform performance and cost optimization
• Follow established data governance, security, and access standards

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

CI/CD

API integration

Streaming

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda)

Job description

Wingstop Restaurants Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer based in Dallas, TX to build and maintain pipelines feeding enterprise analytics and AI.

You will develop ingestion workflows, model data for analytics, and keep production pipelines reliable, collaborating with data scientists, BI developers, and engineers. You will work in a hands-on role with opportunities to grow, contributing to data quality, governance, and scalable platform improvements while supporting Wingstop's data-driven decision