Data Engineer, San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA

HomeLight, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Disability Insurance

401k

Life Insurance

Commuter Benefits

PTO & Volunteer Days

Professional development

Job summary

HomeLight, Inc. is building its first Data Engineering team in San Francisco to tackle diverse data challenges and to power our algorithms and internal users with mission-critical data.

You will own the development, optimization, and operation of our data pipeline that feeds HomeLight products and teams. You will design, build, and integrate new data schemas, warehouses, and pipelines, while partnering with leaders across the company to improve metrics and data release processes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in data, software, or backend engineering.
• Strong Python proficiency for building services and data pipelines.
• Experience with data modeling, system design, and scalable architectures.
• Experience with ETL workflows (Airflow or similar).
• Experience applying LLMs and prompt engineering to workflows.
• Familiarity with AWS and Elasticsearch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own development, optimization, and operation of the data pipeline.
• Provide mission-critical data to algorithms and internal users.
• Design, build, and integrate data warehouses and schemas.
• Research, architect, build, test robust, scalable systems.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Airflow

APIs

Data modeling

Scalable architecture

LLMs

AI tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

Ruby on Rails

Django

Cursor

Codex

Claude Code

Tools

Cursor

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

We are on a mission to empower people to make smarter decisions during one of life’s most important moments: buying or selling their home. By analyzing 40 million+ real estate transactions from 2.5 million agents across the country, we are able to take an unbiased, data-driven approach to match our clients with top-performing real estate agents to meet each of their specific needs. Our algorithm and marketplace solutions guide our clients through every step of the home buying or selling experience. Join us and build our first Data Engineering team and the # destination for home sellers! Learn more about our engineering team!

What You’ll Do Here:

We are building our Data Engineering team to tackle HomeLight's diverse data challenges. This position is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to own the development, optimization, and operation of our data pipeline, which collects, processes, and distributes data to a suite of HomeLight products and teams. You will provide mission-critical data to both our algorithms and internal users, refining our product and identifying new markets. Some projects you will work on:

• Optimize and execute on requests to pull, analyze, interpret, and visualize data


• Partner with team leaders across the organization to build out and iterate on team and individual performance metrics


• Optimize our data release processes, and partner with team leads to iterate on and improve existing data pipelines.


• Design and develop systems that ingest and transform our data streams using the latest tools.


• Design, build, and integrate new cutting-edge databases and data warehouses, develop new data schemas and figure out new innovative ways of storing and representing our data.


• Research, architect, build, and test robust, highly available, and massively scalable systems, software, and services.

What You Bring

• 2+ years of experience in data, software, or backend engineering roles


• Experience applying LLMs and prompt engineering to real-world workflows


• Strong proficiency in Python for building services, data pipelines, and backend systems


• Experience designing, building, and operating service-oriented architectures and APIs


• Solid understanding of data modeling, system design, and scalable architecture patterns


• Hands‑on experience with data pipelines and ETL workflows (Airflow or similar)


• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Codex, Claude Code)


• Strong analytical thinking with a bias toward automation and building scalable systems

Nice to Have

• Experience building and scaling product features using frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django


• Familiarity with AWS to support production applications


• Familiarity with Elasticsearch or other search technologies for user-facing features


• Exposure to LLM-powered product use cases (ChatGPT, conversational interfaces, automation)


• Experience working in a startup or fast-paced environment with high ownership

The Perks

• Medical (Anthem or Kaiser), Dental & Vision (Guardian)


• Long-Term Disability & Short-Term Disability, Hospital Indemnity Insurance (Aflac)


• 401k (Accrue), Life Insurance (Guardian) & Pet Insurance (Nationwide)


• Commuter Benefits for in-office employees


• PTO, including Volunteer Days, to give back to your community


• Annual Anniversary Perks, including professional development and sabbaticals


• HomeLight Services to help you with buying and selling your home

The following compensation information is provided to comply with job posting disclosure requirements in Colorado, New York, Washington, and California.
Base Pay Range: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00. Base pay will vary depending on several factors, such as the position, location, qualifications of the individual, market conditions, and other operational business requirements. The range is dependent on the leveling process during the interview process.

HomeLight is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request, and any accommodation will be addressed confidentially.