Are you smart, driven, curious, resourceful, and not afraid to fail? Then we want to meet you! Our team of bold, innovative, and creative teammates is what makes us a top startup to work for. SONAR delivers news and commentary as well as data and analytics which empower risk management and actionable market insights in the logistics and supply chain industry. If you are ready to join our team, it is time for YOU to apply!
SONAR is on the hunt for a curious, tenacious, and team-oriented Senior Data Engineer to join our fast paced engineering team. The ideal candidate is inquisitive, versatile, team oriented, thrives on change, and has a positive attitude. If you are ready to be challenged, learn new and exciting technologies, and have the unique opportunity to work with some of the most talented developers in the country, we want you to apply!
**This position is Hybrid/Remote-eligible. Preference given to engineers in the Chattanooga area.**
**Must RESIDE in the United States and be eligible to work.**
What you will be doing:
- Implementing ingestion pipelines, using Airflow as the orchestration platform, for consuming data from a wide variety of sources (API, SFTP, Cloud Storage Bucket, etc.).
- Implementing transformation pipelines using software engineering best practices and tools (dbt)
- Working closely with Software Engineering and DevOps to maintain reproducible infrastructure and data that serves both API-only customers and in-house SaaS products
- Defining and implementing data ingestion/transformation quality control processes using established frameworks (Pytest, dbt)
- Building pipelines that use multiple technologies and cloud environments (for example, an Airflow pipeline pulling a file from an S3 bucket and loading the data into BigQuery)
- Ensuring data automation stability through monitoring and improvement
- Reviewing existing and proposed infrastructure for architectural enhancements that follow both software engineering and data analytics best practices
- Working closely with Data Science and facilitating advanced data analysis (like Machine Learning)
What you bring to the table:
- Background in SaaS/DaaS product development
- Python expertise with strong SQL proficiency (T-SQL & Standard SQL)
- Apache Airflow proficiency and Linux environment experience
- Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
- Experience with Google cloud services (GCS, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, etc.) or their analogues on any other cloud platform
- Expertise in dbt (or extensive experience with complex SQL transformations and experience with a templating tool like Jinja)
- Strong communication skills, able to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Willingness to mentor more junior engineers, both finding solutions to problems and also understanding the benefits of that solution
Bonus knowledge/experience:
- Experience implementing cloud architecture changes
- Working knowledge of how to build and maintain APIs using Python/FastAPI
- Transforming similar data from disparate sources to create canonical data structures
- Surfacing data to BI platforms such as Looker Studio
- Experience with complex Data Migration, especially moving data between meaningfully different databases (e.g., BQ to Elastic Search using DataFlow)
- Certification: Professional Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer
Our Benefits:
- An excellent work environment with shallow hierarchies and team support
- A generous benefits package including 100% employer-paid health, dental, vision and Life insurance, STD, LTD
- Stock options
- Appealing 401k matching plan
- Career Mentorship Opportunities
- Personal Development Credit (Can be used toward Student loans or relevant PD Courses)
- Annual life achievement bonus for having a baby, buying a house, or getting married (max one per year)
- No set days off Vacation policy (our team takes time off as needed with supervisor approval)
- Up to $50 for Gym membership.
- Audible or Kindle Unlimited subscription
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What We Do
FreightWaves is the most trusted provider of global supply chain market intelligence. Our high-frequency price, demand, and capacity data and analysis allow our customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast the global physical economy.
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