Staff Data Engineer

Copper; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical premium coverage

Generous parental leave

401(k) plan

Job summary

Copper in Berkeley, CA is looking for a builder to own and architect data flows for our fleet telemetry. The role requires 8+ years of experience in production data infrastructure, ideally in an IoT or hardware setting.

The successful candidate will design reliable data models and maintain efficient storage systems on AWS. This is a full-time in-office position, with a competitive salary range of $185,000-$223,000 and generous benefits including medical and parental leave.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production data infrastructure, ideally with IoT or hardware experience.
• Strong design fundamentals across backend, event-driven systems, and storage.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own fleet telemetry and its data platform, architecting and scaling models and pipelines.
• Stand up reporting and analysis infrastructure to surface product issues early.
• Partner across teams at Copper on device data and access.

Skills

Data infrastructure building

Python

SQL

TypeScript

AWS data services

Tools

Kinesis Firehose

S3

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Overview

At Copper, we're reinventing home appliances for an electrified future. Our flagship Charlie range pairs high-performance induction with integrated battery storage to make the switch from fossil fuels a no-brainer. We're a small, fast, collaborative team that ships, learns, and iterates quickly.

As our fleet grows, we’re hiring a builder to own how data flows through the company — from the range in a customer's kitchen to the dashboards driving business decisions. You'll architect our fleet telemetry and time-series infrastructure, define and implement strategy for our business and CRM data, and build the pipelines and tools that turn product telemetry into actionable data. These systems underpin the diagnostic tools our customer team relies on for surfacing product performance data and demand-side grid support programs.

This is a full-time position expected to be in-office 4 days per week. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.

We value a diverse workplace, and are assembling our team to match these values at this early stage. We especially welcome different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and strongly encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds and genders to apply.

What you'll do

• Own fleet telemetry and its data platform. Architect and scale our data models, streaming pipelines, and storage on AWS so internal fleet data products stay fast, reliable, highly available, and cost efficient as event volume grows.
• Build tools for proactive fleet health. Stand up reporting and analysis infrastructure that surfaces product issues early.
• Partner across the Copper. Work with firmware, manufacturing, ops, and IT on device data, access, and infrastructure. Help with on‑call as systems mature.
• Improve CRM integrations. Get our CRM and other third party services into shape so they’re easily queryable for our support, sales, and operations teams.
• Increase team leverage with AI. Architect data flows and LLM-based tools that mechanize common workflows — e.g., product triage, anomaly flagging — across engineering, support, and product.

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years building production data infrastructure, ideally at an IoT or hardware company — with strong design fundamentals across backend, event-driven distributed systems, and storage.
• Fluency in Python, SQL, and TypeScript
• Experience with time-series and warehousing (e.g., data modeling, retention, and query performance for fleet data), as well as streaming/ETL pipeline design.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS data services (IoT Core, Kinesis Firehose, S3, Athena, Lambda, ElastiCache/Redis) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Experience building production‑quality systems with an emphasis on reliability, automated testing, and long‑term ownership.
• Ability to work across teams and disciplines, communicating clearly with engineers, operators, and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, making pragmatic tradeoffs, and taking responsibility for outcomes rather than just individual tasks.

Bonus Experience

• Domain knowledge in energy and battery-based IoT products
• Experience building and maintaining LLM-based tools and processes
• Experience integrating CRM systems
• Edge data architecture: data sync strategy for devices with intermittent network connectivity
• Working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Location

This is an in-office role that is on site four days per week minimum. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $185,000-$223,000. We are committed to equitable compensation, and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of the premiums for our employees and 50% of the premiums for their dependents on our base plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a 401(k) plan for employees to contribute to, in addition to many other benefits. Every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment (eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks CA Paid Family Leave).

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.