Data Engineer

Who we are:

Hi, we’re SambaSafety and we offer the industry’s most comprehensive driver monitoring software. Our mission is promoting safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Companies trust SambaSafety to keep their employees safe on the roads, price and reduce risk, help protect their brand, their bottom line, and our global community. 

We’ve built an inclusive, supportive, and exceptional culture where every employee is empowered in their role. Don’t take our word for it;  we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace  by The Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Sacramento Bee, and Built In Colorado. And our employees rate SambaSafety as top-notch, with a rock solid 4.9-star rating on Glassdoor.

What You’ll Do: 

Do you enjoy being part of a team where your decisions about data have far reaching impact? Where considerations for consistency, reliability and performance are made from the start? Can you help our teams implement these solutions to help better serve our customers?

As a Senior Data Engineer at SambaSafety, you will utilize your hands-on experience to design and develop reliable and scalable data solutions using industry standards, modern capabilities, and agile processes for our data platform.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, collaborative, and proactive individual who can communicate effectively and can adapt and learn quickly. 

Responsibilities:

• Create, design and implement data solutions based on events to achieve the integration, ingestion, and processing of data from various data sources
• Improve and automate data jobs and workflows.
• Connect a data mesh platform that includes conventional databases and data warehouses with event-driven data pipelines and microservices
• Use CI/CD pipelines to enable automated deployment and automated testing
• Document solutions for different audiences
• Perform full lifecycle software development in an agile environment
• Guide data and software engineers REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• A BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field, or relevant work experience
• In-depth knowledge of distributed messaging and streaming technologies
• Knowledge of relational databases and data warehouse solutions such as PostgreSQL, SQL, and Snowflake
• Ability to create event-driven data solutions
• Ability to design and support systems that handle high traffic and availability.
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools (Matillion, Fivetran, Nifi)
• Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, PowerBI, Looker, dbt, Redash)
• Ability to write, understand and read code (SQL, Python, R)
• Ability to manage data and its security effectively.
• General data manipulation skills: load data, process and clean it, transform and recode it, combine different data sets, reformat data between wide and long, etc.
• Good communication skills. The ability to communicate concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Ability to turn business requirements into technical solutions

Nice to Have Skills: 

• Experience deploying software to a cloud platform environment AWS.
• Understanding of modern DevOps concepts such Docker, Kubernetes.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.

Benefits and Perks:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Volunteer Days
• 401k Employer Match 
• Generous Healthcare Benefits including a fully employer paid family medical plan
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for maternity leave based on tenure
• Wellness &Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Lots of SambaSafety swag
• SambaSafety Events 

Our team of talented and committed safety professionals is exceptional. At SambaSafety we strive to foster an inclusive culture that supports, encourages and celebrates a wide array of diversity. We are committed to create a space where all employees can show up as their authentic selves every day, and we work to advance employee equality, diversity and inclusion.

SambaSafety provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression or genetics.

Come join us to find out for yourself what all the excitement is about!