Staff Data Engineer
US - California - Fully Flexible
Job Description
Who we’re looking for:
The ‘Zendesk Analytics Prototyping’ (ZAP) team is looking for an experienced Staff Data Engineer to support the team’s charter to accelerate CRM measurements and insights, and help promote a data-centric approach to improving customer support tools and operations. To realize that mission, we build and maintain robust, fine-grained, and contextually rich datasets, providing a foundation for developing insights that help enhance Zendesk’s support operations.
The role will be responsible for closely partnering with Software Development Engineers and Business Intelligence Engineers to build high quality data pipelines and manage the team’s data lake. You’ll work in a collaborative environment using the latest engineering best practices with involvement in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will craft and develop curated datasets, applying standard architectural & data modeling practices. You will be primarily developing Data Warehouse Solutions in Snowflake using technologies such as dbt, Airflow, Terraform.
What you’ll be doing:
Collaborate with team members and internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, define successful analytics outcomes, and design data models.
Develop, automate, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines in our Data Warehouse, ensuring reliable business reporting.
Design & build ELT based data models using SQL & DBT.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery
Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems
What you bring to the role
Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of data engineering experience building, maintaining and working with data pipelines & ETL processes in big data environments.
Extensive experience with SQL, ideally in the context of data modeling and analysis.
Hands-on production experience with dbt, and proven knowledge in modern and classic Data Modeling - Kimball, Inmon, etc.
Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
Experience with cloud columnar databases (Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
Experience with processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, ensuring efficient data processing performance and workload management.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Thrive in ambiguous situations, possesses a proactive problem-solving attitude.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar cloud warehouses.
Familiarity with AI tools and techniques that could be applied to data analysis and data transformation tasks.
Completed projects with dbt.
Familiarity with Lean/6 Sigma principles and an understanding of CRM analytics.
Our Data Stack:
ELT (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kafka)
BI (Tableau, Looker)
Infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions)
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The US annualized base salary range for this position is $158,000.00-$238,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.The intelligent heart of customer experience
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Tags: Airflow AWS Big Data BigQuery Business Intelligence CX Data analysis Data pipelines Data warehouse dbt ELT Engineering ETL GitHub Java Kafka Kubernetes Looker Pipelines Prototyping Python Redshift Scala Snowflake SQL Tableau Terraform Testing
Perks/benefits: Equity Salary bonus
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