Staff Data Engineer
Penn Interactive2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$160k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify and prioritize data-driven opportunities with business stakeholders.
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines for analytics, reporting, product, and operational use cases.
- Develop and optimize dbt models and dimensional, semantic, and analytical data models.
- Manage and support Airflow orchestration platforms, with exposure to Dagster.
- Drive data architecture decisions and establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, quality, monitoring, and observability of the data ecosystem.
- Support governance through documentation, metadata management, lineage, and data ownership practices.
- Perform complex analyses and provide actionable recommendations to stakeholders while overseeing team analysis for accuracy and relevance.
- Promote data exploration and self-service analytics adoption.
- Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Support data engineer hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement for critical data platform issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Python, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT design patterns, dimensional modeling, and scalable cloud data transformation pipelines.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer.
- Exposure to Azure data platforms and services is preferred.
- Proficiency with Git-based development workflows and software engineering best practices.
- Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, and data observability solutions.
- Experience with Looker, Mode, Tableau, or similar data visualization and exploration tools.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Ability to lead complex projects and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with a stated base salary range of $160,000–$205,000 USD.
- Fun, relaxed work environment.
- Education and conference reimbursements.
- Career progression and opportunities to mentor others.
- The posting is tagged as remote and hybrid (#LI-REMOTE and #LI-Hybrid).
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Penn Interactive
Penn Interactive is the digital product and engineering arm of PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), developing and operating online sportsbook and iCasino platforms for regulated markets in North America. Its portfolio includes ESPN BET in the U.S., theScore Bet in Ontario, and Hollywood Casino online, all built on proprietary tech. Backed by a parent company headquartered in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania that operates 40+ casinos across 20 states, it connects online play with on-property experiences.