Staff Data Engineer

SimpliSafe Home Security; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free SimpliSafe system and monitoring

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Job summary

SimpliSafe is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to drive data architecture and curated data marts for Product and Engineering. You will own design, development, and curation of data assets, enabling data-driven decisions and robust governance across domains.

You will collaborate across analytics, engineering, and product teams to define requirements, establish standards, and build scalable pipelines and KPIs to measure ML impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, data engineering, or a related field (3+ years building data sets from device data or similar high-volume sources).
• 5+ years working with data analytics and BI tools.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL for advanced data analysis and transformation.
• 3+ years experience in Python for data manipulation.
• Ability to develop and implement scalable data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks and data governance practices.
• Solid understanding of product and engineering development cycles.
• Passion for data and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and documentation of curated data marts for Product and Engineering domains using a centralized data platform.
• Partner with data producers to understand data creation and meaning.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate needs into data requirements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to develop KPIs for tracking ML performance and impact.
• Identify areas for improvement and contribute to centralized data engineering infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce data quality and management standards for curated data marts.
• Maintain data pipelines and analytics for Product and Engineering.
• Champion data discovery, catalog, and analytics tooling.
• Advocate for best practices in analytics engineering, data stewardship, and quality.
• Contribute to the formation of our new team, developing team norms, practices, and charter.

Skills

Data quality

Data governance

Product & engineering cycles

Data-driven decision making

Collaboration

Scalability mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / Engineering / Math

Tools

SQL

Python

Dagster

Airflow

Athena

AWS

Job description

About SimpliSafe

SimpliSafe is dedicated to home security, designing user-centric products for comprehensive protection.

About the Role

As a Staff Data Engineer on the Core Engineering Data Team, you will shape the data landscape for Product and Engineering. You will own the design, development, and curation of domain-specific data marts, ensuring their quality and empowering data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and documentation of curated data marts for Product and Engineering domains using a centralized data platform.
• Partner with data producers to understand data creation and meaning.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate needs into data requirements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to develop KPIs for tracking ML performance and impact.
• Identify areas for improvement and contribute to centralized data engineering infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce data quality and management standards for curated data marts.
• Maintain data pipelines and analytics for Product and Engineering.
• Champion data discovery, catalog, and analytics tooling.
• Advocate for best practices in analytics engineering, data stewardship, and quality.
• Contribute to the formation of our new team, developing team norms, practices, and charter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, data engineering, or a related field (3+ years building data sets from device data or similar high-volume sources).
• 5+ years working with data analytics and BI tools.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL for advanced data analysis and transformation.
• 3+ years experience in Python for data manipulation.
• Ability to develop and implement scalable data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks and data governance practices.
• Solid understanding of product and engineering development cycles.
• Passion for data and data quality.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Dagster, Airflow, or other data orchestration tools.
• Experience with query engines such as Athena and AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with data quality, catalog, and discovery tools.

What We Offer

• A mission- and values-driven culture.
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all individuals.