Remote Senior Data Engineer

Description:

• Honeycomb is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build a modern, scalable data platform.
• The role involves taking full ownership of the Snowflake data warehouse, DBT models, and diverse ingestion platform.
• Responsibilities include designing and maintaining end-to-end solutions for clean, accurate, and well-annotated data access.
• The engineer will create robust, production-grade data pipelines and models to enable data-driven decisions across various teams.
• Collaboration with engineering, product, sales, marketing, and business stakeholders is essential to translate complex needs into actionable insights.
• The role requires establishing best practices for data quality and reliability, setting meaningful SLO metrics, and driving innovation.
• The Senior Data Engineer will lead critical projects with a focus on technical excellence and business value.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have extensive data development experience, including expert-level SQL and programming skills in a scripting language, preferably Python.
• Demonstrated experience with modern data tooling, including MPP Data warehouses like Redshift or Snowflake, and DBT Workflow automation tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect is required.
• Experience in implementing structured data models, architectures, and marts, such as Inmon or Kimball, is necessary.
• The candidate should have experience collaborating with data analysts, data scientists, and business users with varying levels of data savvy.
• Comfort in navigating ambiguous problems is essential, as this is the first Data Engineer hire at Honeycomb.
• Bonus experience includes familiarity with Spark, Scala, Terraform, AWS/K8s, Debezium/Flink, managing production-grade data pipelines, exposure to MLOps, and working with CRM and Martech datasets.

Benefits:

• The position offers a base pay range of $170,000 - $200,000 USD, or CAD $233,504 - CAD $274,710.
• Employees receive generous equity through an employee-friendly stock program.
• Pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience, not negotiation strength.
• Unlimited PTO and a paid sabbatical are provided for time to recharge.
• The company promotes a remote-first culture and provides stipends for home office, co-working, and internet expenses.
• Health benefits include 100% coverage for employees and 75% for dependents.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave is available, regardless of the path to parenthood.
• An annual development allowance is included, along with additional benefits.