Staff Data Engineer: Scale Real‑Time Data Platform

Wingstop Restaurants Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited paid time off

Competitive bonus structure

Health savings account options

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k contributions

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Job summary

Wingstop Restaurants Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer – Data to oversee the architecture and scalability of our data ecosystem. This role is crucial in supporting a high-volume, consumer-facing digital platform that manages billions in annual transactions. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS, relational databases like Aurora PostgreSQL, and event processing techniques to ensure data integrity and high performance.

Successful candidates will play a key role in leading complex data initiatives and optimizing data flows across various systems while mentoring other engineers to enhance data practices. Join Wingstop to help drive our mission of serving the world flavor!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related field.
• Deep knowledge of distributed data systems and event processing techniques.
• Ability to mentor engineers and promote best practices in data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve data platform across systems.
• Design scalable data systems on AWS.
• Optimize data flows between systems and analytics platforms.
• Ensure data integrity and availability across systems.,

Skills

Data architecture expertise

Experience with AWS

Event-driven pipelines

Data consistency and integrity

Mentorship

Tools

Aurora PostgreSQL

Redis

Snowflake

Job description

Wingstop Restaurants Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer – Data to oversee the architecture and scalability of our data ecosystem. This role is crucial in supporting a high-volume, consumer-facing digital platform that manages billions in annual transactions. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS, relational databases like Aurora PostgreSQL, and event processing techniques to ensure data integrity and high performance.

Successful candidates will play a key role in leading complex data initiatives and optimizing data flows across various systems while mentoring other engineers to enhance data practices. Join Wingstop to help drive our mission of serving the world flavor!