Sr. Data Engineer

Key Skills

Alteryx, Amazon RedShift, Analytical and Problem solving, AWS, Azure, Data Engineering, Data science techniques, Data Warehousing, Docker, ETL/ELT technologies, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes-K8s, Operations, Python Programming, Sales, Snowflake, Splunk, SQL

Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain E2E data pipelines, backend ingestion and participate in the build of Samsara’s Data Platform to enable advanced automation and analytics.
• Work with data from a variety of sources including but not limited to: CRM data, Product data, Marketing data, Order flow data, Support ticket volume data.
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and advanced analytics.
• Facilitate data integration and transformation requirements for moving data between applications; ensuring interoperability of applications with data layers and data lake.
• Develop and improve the current data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability and data availability.
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by customer systems and Analytics, Marketing Operations, Sales Operations teams.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or equivalent engineering program.
• 5+ years of work experience as a data engineer, including 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining E2E data pipelines..
• Experience with modern cloud-based data-lake and data-warehousing technology stacks, and familiarity with typical data-engineering tools, ETL/ELT, and data-warehousing processes and best practices.

Experience with the following:

• Languages: Python, SQL.
• Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT or equivalent.
• API: Exposure to python based API frameworks for data pipelines.
• RDBMS: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL-Server or equivalent.
• Cloud: AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Data warehouse: Databricks, Google Big Query, AWS Redshift, Snowflake or equivalent.

An ideal candidate has:

• Comfortable in working with business customers to gather requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied datasets.
• A self-starter, motivated, responsible, innovative and technology-driven person who performs well both solo and as a team member.
• A proactive problem solver and have good communication as well as project management skills to relay your findings and solutions across technical and non technical audiences.
• ETL and Orchestration Experience.
• Fivetran, Alteryx or equivalent.
• DBT or equivalent.
• Logging and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk, DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch or equivalent.
• AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager.
• Other: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR, AWS Fargate, AWS IAM.

At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems. We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.

Benefits

Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.

Accommodations

Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.