Data Engineer

Samara is addressing California’s housing shortage by providing innovative housing solutions. They are seeking a Data Engineer to take ownership of their data platform, ensuring high-quality decision-making across the business by building and maintaining core datasets and scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and Own Core Datasets. Design and maintain datasets that serve as sources of truth for key business reporting and decision making. Ensure datasets are accurate, consistent, and understandable by a broad set of stakeholders
• Explore and Understand Source Systems. Develop a working understanding of source systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bill.com, and other operational platforms. Understand how data is generated and how it maps to business processes
• Design Scalable Data Pipelines. Build, maintain, and monitor production data pipelines that meet current analytical needs and scale as data volume and complexity increase
• Enable Access to High Quality Data. Help democratize access to reliable operational and financial data across Finance, Operations, and go-to-market teams. Ensure data products are well documented and suitable for self-service analytics
• Continuously Expand Analytical Coverage. Identify opportunities for new tables, metrics, and derived datasets that unlock additional insight. Evaluate work based on clarity and usefulness to decision-makers
• Establish Data Standards and Best Practices. Evolve standards for data modeling, testing, documentation, and ownership

Skills

• 1-3 years experience as a data engineer, building core datasets and supporting business verticals as needed
• Hands-on experience shipping scalable data solutions in the cloud (e.g AWS, Databricks, DBT), across multiple data methodologies (e.g dimensional modeling, data marts, medallion schemas)
• Strong SQL and Data Modeling Skills. Advanced SQL proficiency with experience designing analytical data models that support reporting and analytics use cases
• Comfort exploring source systems and tracing data through multiple layers of transformation
• Ability and willingness to learn new systems, tools, and business domains
• Comfortable working in environments where requirements and priorities evolve
• Experience integrating financial, ERP, CRM, or payment systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, Bill.com or similar tools
• Comfort in aggregating data from multiple sources, with proficiency in handling APIs, geospatial imagery/aerial photography, unstructured web data, and public governmental records
• Experience supporting feature engineering, forecasting, or AI-adjacent analytics
• You don't need to be an AI expert, but you're curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule with 3 days each week in our Redwood City office.
• Snacks and Lunch on days in-office.
• Early stage employee equity.
• Exceptional health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k eligibility after 6 months.
• Flexible PTO policy.

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