Dandy is looking for a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer II - Tech Lead to join our Platform Engineering team. You will design and build scalable infrastructure and systems to support our rapidly growing product engineering function, setting the vision for the Data Infrastructure team and owning our data pipelines and warehouse.
What You'll Do
- Set the vision and technical direction for Dandy’s Data Infrastructure team, collaborating with stakeholders.
- Own Dandy’s data pipelines and warehouse, ingesting data from hundreds of sources and scaling the tooling and platform to support data engineering and analytics teams’ needs.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s data engineering in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Improve developer experience and productivity across our range of software repositories.
- Collaborate with stakeholders within the tech org to influence overall objectives and long-term goals of your team.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others.
- Design improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
- Foster a culture of proactive collaboration and systems resiliency and performance. Drive scalable improvements to resiliency and effectiveness through automation.
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of data infrastructure engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth startup environment.
- Proficiency in DBT, Dagster/Airflow, Python, SQL.
- Experience in Public Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure).
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for DBT models.
- Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi).
- Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment.
- Hands-on expertise in designing and implementing data pipelines, ETL processes, and data platforms.
- A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset.
- The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Buildkite.
- Experience with Looker.
Technical Stack
- BigQuery
- Looker
- FiveTran
- DBT
- Postgresql
- GCP
- Pulumi
Team & Environment
You will be joining Dandy's Platform Engineering team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Mental health support
- Parental planning resources
- Retirement savings options
- Generous paid time off
Dandy is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
