Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Opendoor's Data Platform team and contribute to democratizing learning through data-driven insights. You will design and implement components of our event-based analytics platform, working with diverse online and offline datasets. This role involves designing data models, building scalable data pipelines, and establishing best practices for data engineering. You'll collaborate with various teams, including data scientists and engineers, to drive business impact and improve decision-making. Opportunities for growth into a tech lead/manager role and mentoring junior team members are available. Remote roles in India are supported.

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

Responsibilities

• Drive direct business impact with executive-level visibility
• Design technical architecture and implement components from the ground up as we transition to event-based analytics
• Work on the unique challenge of joining a variety of online and offline data sets, not just big data
• Learn and grow Data Science and Data Analytics skills (we sit in the same org!)
• Partner with infrastructure and product engineers to instrument our backend services and end-to-end user journeys to create visibility for the rest of the business
• Design, develop and monitor scalable and cost-efficient data pipelines and build out new integrations with third-party tools
• Work with data analysts and data scientists to design our data models as inputs to metrics and machine learning models
• Establish the best practices for data engineering
• Assess build vs buy tradeoffs for components in our company-wide analytics platform, which will inform decision-making for executives, PMs and Ops, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

Remote roles in India are available in all territories