Staff Data Engineer — Build Trusted Data at Global Scale

Life; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance 2x salary

401(k) with employer match

Professional development dollars

Job summary

YouVersion, part of Life.Church, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to lead data initiatives that power analytics, decision-making, and trusted metrics at global scale. You’ll architect platforms, drive data quality, mentor engineers, and partner with leaders to enable mission-driven impact across products.

Deep expertise in data systems, cloud platforms, and governance is required, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on data or software engineering delivering production-grade systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the data problem space and lead design/implementation of large-scale data solutions.
• Architect data platforms with ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics layers.
• Set technical standards for data modeling, pipelines, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Champion data quality, trust, observability, and governance across the organization.
• Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and leadership to align data strategy with goals.
• Resolve complex data reliability, performance, and scaling challenges.
• Enable insight at scale through event instrumentation and analytical datasets.
• Mentor and develop data engineers; foster ownership and excellence.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

SQL

Data warehousing

Pipelines

Airflow

dbt

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

Firebase

GA4

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Fivetran

Pub/Sub

Job description

YouVersion, part of Life.Church, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to lead data initiatives that power analytics, decision-making, and trusted metrics at global scale. You’ll architect platforms, drive data quality, mentor engineers, and partner with leaders to enable mission-driven impact across products.

Deep expertise in data systems, cloud platforms, and governance is required, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and cross-team collaboration.