Staff Data Engineer: Postgres & GRC Data Platform (Remote)

Workiva Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Workiva is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own Postgres schema design, transactional data models, and the extraction layer feeding OLAP systems. You will collaborate with an OLAP specialist to own GRC data outcomes end to end, from transactional models through BI marts and history marts.

You’ll lead design standards, data contracts, and performance optimization while mentoring engineers across the organization. This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable data workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering or backend engineering with hands-on ownership of production Postgres systems.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and evolve Postgres schemas for GRC product services, balancing normalization, query performance, and application ergonomics.
• Own change-data-capture and extraction: what leaves Postgres, in what shape, on what cadence, and how upstream schema changes are communicated.
• Establish relational modeling patterns and review standards so engineers build consistent, maintainable schemas.
• Implement data integrity checks, replication/failover practices, and monitoring for transactional data health and extraction pipelines.
• Mentor engineers on relational modeling, query optimization, and transactional system fundamentals.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL

Data modeling

Mentoring

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Debezium

Kafka Connect

dbt

PgBouncer

Job description

Workiva is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to own Postgres schema design, transactional data models, and the extraction layer feeding OLAP systems. You will collaborate with an OLAP specialist to own GRC data outcomes end to end, from transactional models through BI marts and history marts.

You’ll lead design standards, data contracts, and performance optimization while mentoring engineers across the organization. This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable data workflows.