# Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

Hiring organization: [Zencastr](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/zencastr)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/dbbffb09-46d1-4554-8b46-8128a867d842

Listed on Zencastr's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote, EU & US
- Remote: yes

## Summary

You'll design and build the company's data warehouse and analytical foundations as their first dedicated data engineer, establishing the dimensional models, pipelines, and governance standards that drive analytics across the organization. This role suits someone who wants end-to-end ownership of data systems and enjoys translating business needs into scalable, well-structured data architecture.

_Our summary, not Zencastr's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Redshift, Apache Airflow, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Google BigQuery, MongoDB, Segment, Snowflake, SQL, Star Schema

## Required

- 5+ years of data engineering or analytics engineering experience
- Built and owned a dimensional model in production
- Strong SQL proficiency
- Experience with document-based databases like MongoDB and analytical data warehouses
- Star schema and dimensional modeling expertise
- Hands-on experience with modern transformation frameworks like dbt or Dataform
- Built and maintained ETL/ELT pipelines
- Worked with orchestration tools like Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
- Experience with data ingestion or event streaming platforms
- Understanding of data modeling best practices and performance optimization
- Track record of operating systems you didn't build
- Focus on data quality, validation, and governance
- Can explain technical tradeoffs to non-engineers

## Nice to have

- Change data capture patterns from operational databases
- Subscription billing data experience
- Distributed processing frameworks like Spark, Beam, or Dataflow
- First or early data hire experience

Apply on Zencastr's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/96a7ba66-f677-48d7-83cc-9e8bb769821a/application