Staff Data Platform Engineer, Enterprise Data

Description

• Support dashboards: Work with the PM and stakeholders to ensure the data models support Finance, Operations, and HR/Recruiting dashboards
• Build integrations: Configure Fivetran connectors, build custom pipelines, and connect 9 enterprise systems (ION, Ramp, QuickBooks, Rippling, Ashby, Salesforce, SharePoint, Smartsheet, DocuSign)
• Write dbt models: Transform raw data into clean, documented, tested models for dashboards and analytics
• Ensure data quality: Implement testing, monitoring, and alerting for data pipelines; catch issues before they reach dashboards
• Develop the ION-Ramp pipeline: Build the Snowflake → Databricks → Ramp pipeline that enables three-way matching for Finance
• Document everything: Maintain clear documentation for pipelines, models, and data definitions

Requirements

• Background in hardware or hardtech companies—you understand manufacturing, supply chain, and physical product development
• ETL/ELT pipeline development—Fivetran, Airbyte, Stitch, or custom pipeline experience
• API integration experience—REST, GraphQL; you're comfortable reading API docs and building integrations with enterprise SaaS tools
• Modern stack: Databricks, Fivetran, dbt, Airbyte—best-in-class tools
• Python and SQL proficiency—you'll write both daily
• Variety: You'll work across 9 different systems—Finance, HR, Manufacturing, CRM, Documents—never boring
• Experience with data warehouses—Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• 5+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience
• Data modeling skills—dimensional modeling, schema design, understanding of how data will be used downstream
• Experience with data quality frameworks and testing (Great Expectations, dbt tests, etc.)
• Comfortable building lightweight internal tools—Python/Flask, basic frontend—or using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot) to extend your capabilities
• Experience with dbt (data build tool)
• Familiarity with MES, ERP, or supply chain systems (ION, SAP, NetSuite, etc.)

Benefits

• Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
• Team: Work alongside exceptional people from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other top engineering organizations
• Vision: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan + 50% for dependents.
• Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
• One Medical: Sponsored memberships for eligible employees and their dependents.
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
• Compensation: Competitive compensation with equity
• Medical: 100% premium coverage for base Silver level plan for employee + 50% premium coverage for dependents. Platinum plans available.
• Dental: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan (including orthodontia) + 50% for dependents.
• Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
• Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
• Benefits: Health/dental/vision, 401(k), and flexible PTO
• Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance