Senior Data Engineer

The role

You will build the analytical foundation for Ground News by developing data integrations and analytical layers. You will design scalable data models and own the reliability of pipelines from ingestion to dashboards.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, conformed data models and analytical layers.
• Own connectors that land data in the warehouse end to end.
• Manage infrastructure as code and deployment workflows across AWS and GCP.
• Own pipelines and monitor freshness and failures.
• Act as a senior voice in data architecture decisions.
• Partner with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders.
• Champion high engineering quality through testing, code reviews, and observability.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms and analytical models.
• Deep expertise in SQL and Python.
• Broad experience with dimensional modelling: grain, table types, conformed dimensions, and load patterns.
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling: BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, and ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Google Datastream.
• Experience with data stores and event-driven systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues or streams (Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub).
• SRE-oriented experience: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization for data integrations.
• Experience shipping data and metrics safely.

Benefits

• Freedom to work remotely

About the company

Ground News is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources and read between the lines of media bias. The company is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.