Staff Data Engineer
$152,000–$237,500 year
RemoteCanada
CanadaRemoteFull Time$152,000–$237,500 yearSenior LevelMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Own the engineering foundation for Jane's customer data infrastructure by assessing existing event pipelines, defining architectural direction, and building cohesive systems for schema governance, identity resolution, and attribution. Lead the migration and consolidation of RudderStack tooling while establishing instrumentation standards across engineering, product, and marketing teams. Work directly with stakeholders to ensure reliable data collection within healthcare consent and PHI compliance constraints, driving strategy for collection layers and source integrations.
Required Qualifications
- A University Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field
- hands-on experience as a data engineer or similar
- time operating at a staff level or higher
- depth and judgment
- built and maintained event collection, customer data infrastructure, or data pipeline systems in production
- inherited and rationalized independently built pipelines
- comfortable leading and owning both the strategy as well as the execution
- making the architectural calls
- being the person other teams and leadership look to for direction on this domain
- set standards that teams actually follow
- influence and drive strategy clearly across engineering, product, BI, marketing, and leadership
- Experience evaluating or implementing Customer Data Platforms
- migrating or consolidating existing tooling
- Greenfield-only experience is not sufficient for this role
- Experience with privacy-compliant tracking and consent management
- worked with consent management platforms
- understand how consent state affects data collection
- designed instrumentation that holds up within those constraints
- ideally including server-side tagging or tag management systems
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments
- Strong opinions (loosely held) on schema design, event taxonomy, and data quality
- cared about getting it right
- Experience with identity resolution, attribution, or cross-domain tracking
- understand the complexities of stitching a user journey across systems
- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript
- SQL
- Comfort working with AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow
Desired Qualifications
- Python
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Looker, or similar warehouse and BI tooling
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