Data Engineer 2
The Farmer's Dog28 days ago
Base Salary
$130k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain structured and unstructured data pipelines for reporting, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
- Write production-level code that processes and validates millions of events per day.
- Develop AI tooling and automation to improve data engineering workflows.
- Ingest data from APIs, databases, file systems, and streaming platforms.
- Establish data governance frameworks and maintain data integrity, reliability, and security across the data warehouse.
- Implement monitoring, data quality checks, and alerting for pipeline reliability.
- Support production data systems and help resolve data-related incidents.
- Document technical implementations and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Require 2–4 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in Python and solid SQL skills for production code, data transformation, and analysis.
- Experience or strong interest in AI/ML workflows and tooling, including preparing data for machine learning models.
- Practical experience with REST APIs and data integration patterns.
- Familiarity with dbt, Airflow, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and experience independently building data pipelines with minimal guidance.
- Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, and willingness to learn.
- Love of dogs.
Benefits
- Dog-friendly office in SoHo.
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages.
- Comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
- Company-supported mental health benefits.
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave.
- Competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible PTO.
- Discounted fresh food for employees’ dogs.
- In-office work is expected four to five days per week, subject to change at company discretion.
About The Farmer's Dog
The Farmer’s Dog makes and delivers freshly cooked, personalized dog food for U.S. pet owners through a direct-to-consumer subscription. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it produces meals in-house and ships nationwide, with over 1 billion meals delivered. The privately held company also builds its own e-commerce, subscription, and fulfillment systems to manage pricing, billing, and orders.