Senior Data Engineer
Remote (United States)
Transcend
Transcend offers data governance solutions that help companies achieve privacy compliance through powerful data mapping and data discovery, automated data subject requests, and simple cookie consent, all with industry leading security.About Transcend
Transcend is the privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across your tech stack.
We believe that engineering privacy rights and making them easily accessible to the world is one of the most high-impact ways we can spend our time. That's why we're building an ambitious team that’s passionate about solving the important problems of the future and having fun while doing it. We’re backed by Accel, Index, 01A, StepStone Group, and HighlandX growing fast, and are serving some of the most iconic brands in the world.
(Even if you don't see a good fit below, we'd still love to stay in touch. Email us at recruiting@transcend.io).
About the role
Transcend is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Data Engineer to connect cloud systems to our business intelligence stack and extract useful metrics and reports. This role will play a pivotal part in driving our product maturity and our understanding of the real-world usage of our products. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in cross-department collaboration and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Securely link our cloud infrastructure components
- Collaborate with product managers, Go-To-Market teams, and engineers to identify key metrics and develop strategies for effective extraction.
- Design a comprehensive metrics collection plan for future engineering initiatives, encompassing all stages of product deployment.
- Establish frameworks for evaluating the impact of engineering changes using techniques such as A/B testing, shadow logging, and feature flagging.
- Oversee internal alerting and observability tools to enhance our engineering stack's performance and reliability.
- Participate in strategic planning to optimize metrics and set ambitious future goals.
- Work as an individual contributor on a new team within our organization
Who you are
- A metrics enthusiast with a knack for organizing data into actionable insights
- Someone with at least 3 years of developer experience with open source business intelligence tooling such as: Airbyte, Lightdash, Redshift, and DBT
- Experienced in cloud environments, particularly AWS, with a strong understanding of cloud architecture
- Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Pulumi, to streamline deployment processes
- A good communicator capable of working across multiple teams
- Passionate about cloud security and committed to safeguarding data
Why join us?
The people at Transcend are driven, kind and know how to balance work, life and memes. We learn from each other and have a strong support system.
You’re joining a fast growing start up, with opportunities to help define and grow the organization.
We have a strong mission to protect user privacy rights everywhere. The privacy compliance landscape is growing, and we are at the forefront of building solutions that protect user privacy rights with modern infrastructure and automation.
You will have autonomy and trust to drive initiatives from the start.
We believe that turning the principles of data privacy into exercisable human rights is one of the most high-impact ways we can spend our time, and so we're building an ambitious team that’s passionate about solving important problems and having fun while doing it.
As the best-in-class solution in a new market, Transcend is a fast-paced and exciting workplace. The product evolves quickly to meet new client needs and adapts to the rapidly advancing world of privacy law. As one of Transcend’s earliest hires, you’ll get to work on a wide array of exciting projects.
Additional Information
Transcend is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Our comprehensive compensation packages play a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to bringing data rights to everyone.
For this role, the estimated annual total salary ranges are below. The actual annual salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.
The listed range below is a guideline, and the annual total salary range for this role may be modified. Transcend offers attractive health benefits, equity, and perks in addition to cash compensation.
Benefits
Taking Care of You and Yours ⭐
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 80% coverage for you, and 50% coverage for all your dependents.
- Voluntary disability insurance: short-term disability, long-terms disability, and life insurance.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- Free One Medical membership sponsored by us.
- Access to our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
Flexible PTO 🌴
- Take as many vacation, sick, and mental health days as you need.
- 13 additional company holidays, plus 4 Transcend Days Off.
- Generous parental leave, caregiver, emergency, and compassionate leave policies.
Setting You Up For Success 💳 🥐
- A unique and diverse remote-first company culture, shaped by people with entrepreneurial mindset who build together and aim for excellence always.
- $360 a month for all meals.
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, and healthcare expenses.
- Meaningful equity.
- Company retreats.
Tags: A/B testing Architecture AWS Business Intelligence dbt Engineering Lightdash Open Source Privacy Redshift Security Terraform Testing
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