Staff Data Engineer - Credit Karma

Intuit; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 192,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit Credit Karma is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data and software solutions powering a diverse set of analytics and product use cases. You will collaborate with Product Management, Data Architects, Data Scientists, Product Analysts, and Software Engineers to translate business needs into robust data platforms and reusable frameworks.

This end-to-end role emphasizes software engineering fundamentals, platform development, and data-driven decision making at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in software or data engineering.
• Strong SQL and data warehousing fundamentals.
• Experience with scalable data pipelines and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, production-grade data systems across the data lifecycle.
• Develop robust batch and streaming data pipelines using modern technologies.
• Apply solid software engineering practices to ensure reliable, testable, and maintainable systems.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Google Dataflow

BigQuery

Airflow

Spark

Flink

Job description

Overview

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 130 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* -- all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London and New York City.

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 130 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* -- all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London and New York City.

About The Role

We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to build scalable data and software solutions that power a wide range of use cases across Credit Karma.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Architects, Data Scientists, Product Analysts, Software Engineers, and other Data Engineers to translate business and product needs into robust, production-grade systems. You will design and develop data warehouses, data models, pipelines, and reusable frameworks, while also contributing to the broader infrastructure and services that enable reliable and efficient data processing and experiment execution at scale.

This is an end-to-end engineering role with a strong emphasis on software engineering fundamentals. Beyond building data pipelines and datasets, you will be expected to apply solid engineering practices to develop scalable, maintainable systems, and contribute to shared platforms.

This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about building reliable systems with data at the core, and who are interested in growing across both data engineering and software/platform engineering domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, production-grade systems across the data lifecycle, including data ingestion, processing, modeling, and serving
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines (batch and streaming) using modern data technologies
• Apply strong software engineering principles to ensure systems are reliable, testable, and maintainable

Develop Data Products, Models & Frameworks

• Build well-structured, reusable datasets and data models that power analytics, applications, and downstream systems
• Develop and enhance frameworks that enable scalable data processing and reduce duplication across teams
• Contribute to standardizing metrics, data definitions, and modeling patterns

Contribute to Platform & Service Development

• Contribute to both data and service-layer components of the data and experimentation platform
• Collaborate with engineers to improve platform capabilities, scalability, and developer experience
• Support systems that enable reliable experiment execution, metric computation, and analysis at scale

Drive Data Quality & Operational Excellence

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and validation to ensure high data quality and system reliability
• Troubleshoot complex data and system issues, performing root cause analysis and driving resolution
• Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

Collaborate Cross-Functionally

• Partner with Product Management, Data Architects, Data Scientists, Product Analysts, and Software Engineers to define and deliver data solutions
• Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical designs and drive execution end-to-end

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a related role
• Strong programming skills in at least one language (e.g., Python, Java, Scala), with solid software engineering fundamentals
• Expertise in SQL and strong understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts
• Demonstrated success building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines using technologies such as Google Dataflow, BigQuery, Airflow/Composer, Spark, or Flink.
• Experience designing and building scalable data pipelines and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle best practices, including agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

Oakland $191,500 - $259,000