Staff Data Engineer - Data Platform & Observability

Kodiak Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodiak Solutions is seeking a technical leader to diagnose and resolve query, warehouse, concurrency, and workload-performance issues across products. You will establish workload isolation, sizing, query optimization, benchmarking, and capacity planning, building cost visibility with measurable workload data.

You will define dbt conventions, standardize model testing, and mentor engineers while translating enterprise architecture into practical design patterns.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and mentoring experience in data engineering.
• Ability to guide cross-team improvements and reviews.
• Experience transforming legacy SQL into maintainable data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve data pipeline issues across products.
• Establish workload isolation, sizing, and capacity planning practices.
• Improve monitoring and alerting across Snowflake, dbt, Azure, and Datadog.
• Lead modernization of SQL and stored procedures into scalable data architectures.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Data engineering

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Azure

Datadog

Job description

Kodiak Solutions is seeking a technical leader to diagnose and resolve query, warehouse, concurrency, and workload-performance issues across products. You will establish workload isolation, sizing, query optimization, benchmarking, and capacity planning, building cost visibility with measurable workload data.

You will define dbt conventions, standardize model testing, and mentor engineers while translating enterprise architecture into practical design patterns.