TopDog Law LLC is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale the data platform that powers analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the organization. This hands-on engineering role focuses on developing a robust data platform, ensuring pipeline reliability, and scaling infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines from internal systems and third-party data sources.
- Implement scalable ELT workflows that process and deliver data across the organization.
- Maintain transformation pipelines and ensure reliable delivery of analytics-ready datasets.
- Manage and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of the company’s cloud data warehouse environment.
- Maintain orchestration frameworks and scheduling systems that support data workflows.
- Optimize data pipeline performance, compute utilization, and system efficiency.
- Support infrastructure required for advanced analytics and machine learning workloads.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability across data pipelines and platform components.
- Ensure data freshness and system uptime meet defined service expectations.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues including pipeline failures, data quality issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Maintain version-controlled data infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for data pipelines.
- Implement testing and validation practices to ensure data quality and reliability.
- Contribute to documentation of data pipelines, system architecture, and platform dependencies.
- Partner with the Director of Data to implement data architecture and platform improvements.
- Support analytics and BI teams by ensuring reliable and well-modeled datasets are available for reporting and analysis.
- Contribute engineering input to platform improvements and technical roadmap initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in implementing and optimizing ELT workflows and data warehousing solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage performance, reliability, and scalability in a cloud data environment.
- Experience with orchestration, monitoring, and observability tooling for data systems.
- Proficiency in diagnosing and resolving production data pipeline issues, including failures and quality problems.
- Familiarity with version control and CI/CD practices for data infrastructure.
- Ability to implement data quality testing and validation.
- Excellent documentation and communication skills.
- A collaborative mindset, capable of partnering with leadership and cross-functional teams.
- At TopDog Law, everyone is expected to think critically, communicate clearly, and take ownership of their work.
Team & Environment
Works closely with the Director of Data, who defines the broader data strategy and architecture.





