Staff Data Engineer

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

Culture Amp is the world’s most trusted Employee Experience platform. Our mission is to create a better world of work for 100 million people by helping companies put their people and culture first. 

We do this by bringing together pioneering people science and powerful technology. Over 3000 companies like Airbnb, Slack, and Deliveroo trust Culture Amp to collect, understand and connect data throughout the employee experience. The insights help them truly understand their people and guide them on the best actions to drive positive behaviour change and lasting impact. We live in a world where the ability to understand and influence culture at scale is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ but a ‘necessary-to-survive’.

We have a remote-first culture and this position can be based anywhere from Australia or New Zealand. This role can be fully remote or a hybrid if you are in Melbourne. We encourage you to work in the way that best suits you.

How you can help make a better world of work

The Data Platform team is responsible for the infrastructure and tooling that enables Culture Amp to succeed with data. This includes our Data Lake, Data Warehouse, ML and Data Science tooling, and core ETL pipelines.

Data Engineers in this team build and maintain the platform to be robust, scalable, and cost-effective, while empowering our users (analysts, data scientists, ML engineers) to do their best work.

As part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will 

• Tackle a wide variety of technical problems across our codebases as you build features and help us deliver a robust, scalable data platform to improve the experience of analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers using the platform
• Collaborate and guide other engineers in your team through pair/mob programming, writing solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests, to build shared understanding of your work.
• Work with the product manager in your team to understand customer problems and help to develop, refine, and then implement solutions.
• Play a huge role in coaching and uplifting more junior developers in the team
• Work with engineering leadership to adapt and refine our architectural vision
• Ensure our data platform is robust, reliable, cost-effective, and protects the privacy and security of our users’ data

You have 

• You have experience in building and maintaining data management systems at scale. You understand fundamental data engineering concepts, scalability, security, and maintenance.
• You are a proactive and clear communicator. You value empathy and kindness and are able to articulate your ideas and feelings when writing or speaking, and are open to the perspectives others bring.
• You seek to understand and solve user problems. You think about how your work – at all levels – impacts our users and improves their experience.
• Your process involves documenting your work. You write code that is consistent, maintainable, and understood by your teammates.
• You are excited about the prospect of working to empower and amplify other engineers.
• You’re self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required.
• You love having an impact through enabling others with platforms and tooling
• You have experience with data offerings in the AWS cloud, such as Athena, Redshift, Glue, EMR, and SageMaker
• You have experience working with with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, especially AWS CDK
• You have deep knowledge of modern data management practices and tools, across ETL/ELT, data quality, governance, monitoring, etc.

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Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. 

Non average workplaces attract above average people.

We consider ourselves anything but average and strive to make a home for different types of people from around the world to do their best work and have fun doing it. So we have created 4 “not your average” values that we live by, check it out on our website and if this sounds like the environment for you, please apply! 

We are committed to not only making a better world of work, but also a better world. So we are proud to be recognised as a certified B-Corp.

We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for “company results”, but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavour to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism on our website.

We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.

• MacBooks for you to do your best work 
• Share Options - it’s important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success
• Excellent parental leave and in work support programme, - for those families to be
• Flexible working schedule - where we can, let’s make work, work for you
• Fun and inclusive digital, and (in the future) in-person events

Most importantly. An opportunity to really make a difference in people’s lives.