Senior Data Engineer

The role

A Senior Data Engineer will build and own the data infrastructure to power decision intelligence, AI-powered pricing, and customer-facing analytics. This hands-on technical leadership role involves architecting and maintaining the data platform and ensuring data reliability across the stack.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and maintain the infrastructure that moves and transforms marketplace data
• Own the analytical schema in the data warehouse for internal and customer-facing reporting
• Design and enforce data quality standards, monitoring, and testing
• Make intentional architectural decisions and document tradeoffs
• Contribute code in pipeline logic, SQL, and data modeling
• Share meaningful code reviews
• Debug and resolve data issues and drive root cause work
• Take end-to-end accountability for data systems and roadmap themes
• Partner with Product, Data, and Engineering teammates
• Identify and advocate for data infrastructure investments

Required qualifications

• 5–8+ years of data engineering experience
• Deep hands-on expertise across the modern data stack including pipeline tooling, workflow orchestration, transformations, and BI tools
• Strong SQL and data modeling foundations
• Experience owning data quality end-to-end, including testing and observability frameworks
• AI-native chops: productively integrate AI into development workflows
• Proven ability to take accountability for systems and themes
• Ability to collaborate cross functionally with data analysts, product engineers, and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience at a B2B SaaS, marketplace, or data products company
• Marketplace or transaction-platform data
• Applied AI/ML pipeline work
• Customer-facing analytics products
• Food and beverage or CPG domain knowledge
• Experience integrating LLM tooling into data workflows

Benefits

• Remote-first environment
• Co-working access for locals in BOS, NYC, & DEN
• Competitive salary and stock option packages
• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Climate-focused, pre-tax 401(k) and post-tax Roth 401(k) options
• 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave + flex return to work
• 15+ company holidays, including an End of Year Reset Week
• 20 vacation days and 10 sick days per year
• Focus Fridays (no meetings after 1PM local)
• Summer Fridays (1/2 day)
• Paid volunteer outings and civic engagement leave
• Annual flex funds for remote work needs, learning & development, and socializing with colleagues

Before you apply

• Applicants should be authorized to work in the United States
• Unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time
• Candidates who make it to the final round will complete a background check

About the company

Spoiler Alert is a CPG and retail tech company that builds marketplace infrastructure to transform CPG surplus into opportunity. They have powered the sale of over $6 billion of inventory from leading CPG brands.