Staff Data Engineer

Coalition; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible PTO

Home office stipend

WeWork access

Wellness programs

Career advancement

Job summary

Coalition is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define the enterprise Data & Analytics platform's architecture. You will build scalable data infrastructure for cyber security, insurance analytics, BI, actuarial workflows, and AI/ML products to drive better risk decisions.

You will lead architecture across teams, mentor engineers, and help scale our data products while ensuring data quality, security, and regulatory readiness. This role is remote-first with strong collaboration across the Data team.

Qualifications

• 9–12 years building and operating production data platforms.
• Deep expertise with Snowflake and dbt, incl. performance optimization and cost management.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; experience with dimensional models or Data Vault 2.0.
• Experience with batch and streaming pipelines using Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
• Ability to lead architecture, mentor engineers, and set durable standards.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and standards for Snowflake, dbt, orchestration, and infra-as-code.
• Design governed pipelines and domain data models for insurance and security data.
• Build reusable data products, contracts, feature stores, and semantic models.
• Establish observability, quality, lineage, security, and incident practices.
• Develop platform foundations for feature engineering, embeddings, and AI apps.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align architecture with outcomes.

Skills

Snowflake

dbt

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Leadership

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Kafka

Kinesis

Looker

LookML

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the role

As a Staff Data Engineer on Coalition’s Data team, you will define the architecture and technical direction of the enterprise Data & Analytics platform. You will build trusted, scalable data infrastructure for cyber security, insurance exposure analytics, BI, actuarial workflows, and AI/ML products. Your work will help Coalition make better risk decisions, deliver reliable data products, and scale its mission to Protect the Unprotected.

Responsibilities

• Set the architecture and engineering standards for Snowflake, dbt, orchestration, streaming, batch ELT, and infrastructure-as-code across the Data platform.
• Design governed Medallion pipelines and domain-oriented data models that make complex insurance and security data reliable, discoverable, and usable.
• Build reusable data products, contracts, feature stores, and semantic models that serve BI, actuarial, AI/ML, and operational consumers.
• Establish observability, quality, lineage, security, and incident-management practices that protect data reliability and support regulated workflows.
• Develop the platform foundations for feature engineering, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval-augmented AI applications.
• Partner with engineering, product, underwriting, actuarial, security, and business teams to align architecture with customer and business outcomes.

Skills and Qualifications

• 9–12 years of experience building and operating production data platforms, with a track record of owning architecture for complex or high-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake and dbt, including performance optimization, incremental processing, warehouse cost management, testing, and deployment practices.
• Strong programming and data modeling skills in Python and analytical SQL, with experience designing dimensional models and/or Data Vault 2.0 architectures.
• Experience building reliable batch and streaming pipelines with modern orchestration and ingestion technologies such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Kafka, Kinesis, Snowpipe Streaming, or Dynamic Tables.
• Experience establishing data products, data contracts, domain ownership, SLAs, access controls, lineage, and quality standards across multiple teams.
• Experience building feature engineering infrastructure or AI data systems, including feature stores, embeddings, vector search, or RAG pipelines.
• Production experience with Looker and LookML, including governed semantic models and centralized metrics for self-service analytics.
• A strong technical leadership mindset, with experience influencing architecture across teams, mentoring engineers, communicating tradeoffs, and creating durable engineering standards.

Bonus Points

• Experience modeling insurance domains such as underwriting, claims, reinsurance, policy exposure, loss runs, or loss triangles.
• Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, Feast, DataHub, Atlan, OpenLineage, Elementary, dbt-expectations, or Evidently AI.
• Experience implementing RBAC hierarchies, row-level policies, column masking, PII tokenization, audit logging, or regulated-data controls.
• Experience managing Snowflake environments with Terraform and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot to improve code quality, testing, and documentation.

Compensation

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets.

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $158,000/year up to $218,000/year.

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $142,600/year up to $200,000/year.

Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your Recruiter can share more on the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Use of AI: We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.

Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition?

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [e-mail] . We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.