Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Opendoor is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their Data Platform team. This role is crucial for democratizing learning within the company by building systems that enable company-wide analytics and experimentation. The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for driving business impact with executive-level visibility, designing technical architecture, and implementing components from the ground up as we transition to event-based analytics.

What the role involves:

• Designing technical architecture and implementing components from the ground up.
• Joining a variety of online and offline data sets.
• Partnering with infrastructure and product engineers to instrument backend services and end-to-end user journeys
• Designing, developing, and monitoring scalable and cost-efficient data pipelines and build out new integrations with third-party tools
• Working with data analysts and data scientists to design data models as inputs to metrics and machine learning models
• Establishing the best practices for data engineering.
• Assessing build vs buy tradeoffs for components in our company-wide analytics platform.

Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong SQL skills
• 5+ years of experience working with event instrumentation, data pipelines, and data warehouses, preferably acting as a data architect in a previous role
• Proficiency with systems design and data modeling
• Fluency with workflow management tools, like Airflow or dbt
• Experience with modern data warehouses, like Snowflake or BigQuery
• Expertise breaking down complex problems, documenting solutions, and sequencing work to make iterative improvements
• Familiarity with marketing data tech stack
• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Mode, Tableau, and Looker
• Familiarity with programming skills, preferably in Python
• Familiarity with software design principles, including test-driven development

What Opendoor offers:

• Opportunity to grow into a Tech Lead/Manager, and mentor junior team members as the team grows quickly.