Principal Data Engineer

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

Culture Amp is on a mission to embed analytics and insights across our product suite. We have recently acquired the people analytics platform Orgnostic, and are looking to build out our data platform to further unlock the value of our data. To help us deliver on this mission, we are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our Data Intelligence Camp. You will play a key role in designing and implementing our data architecture, enabling analytics, insights, and AI/ML across our platform. You’ll also be responsible for uplifting our capabilities in data management, quality, and governance, working with data owners and implementing processes and automation to ensure that the data is reliable, consistent, and trustworthy.

As part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will

• Collaborate across team and camp boundaries to drive alignment on our data strategy and ensure that data owners and data consumers are empowered by our data platform to deliver value to their customers
• Ensure Team Leads and engineers in your camp are supported, productive, enjoy their work, have clear remits, and help them to resolve issues to improve culture and engagement to maximise their impact on our mission.
• Ensure a steady flow of consistent communication within and across all of our Camps. Facilitate knowledge-sharing, plan visibility and alignment of large initiatives between the Camps and the VP of Engineering.
• Mentor the Team Leads, Staff Engineers and the rest of the engineers in your camp, to support their needs and development, and to drive consistent, sustainable technical excellence.

You have

• Significant experience working as a data engineer, with a track record of delivering high quality data products that produce real business outcomes
• Strong knowledge of several of the following: SQL, Python, dbt, AWS Redshift, AWS CDK, , Apache Kafka, realtime analytics platforms such as Clickhouse or Druid, and stream processing tools such as Apache Flink
• Experience implementing programs around data governance, privacy, and compliance
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills - You make clear and timely decisions in the face of many nuanced trade offs and varied opinions.

You are

• Able to chart a path on a long term journey through much complexity, change and ambiguity.
• A clear communicator who can share a compelling plan and the reasoning behind your decisions, ensuring campers with varying degrees of experience and context can understand your message and approach.
• A natural coach and teacher - You always make time to coach and teach all those around you. This includes engineers in your camp, your peers and those you report to.
• A Driver - You get things done and you like to roll up your sleeves and get to work, pushing a number of initiatives forward simultaneously.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com  and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.