DataOps Engineer
Greystar Real Estate Services, LLC3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$120k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement AI-powered observability for pipeline drift, anomalies, SLA risk, data quality degradation, schema drift, and volume anomalies.
- Build agentic monitoring, AI-assisted root cause analysis, automated incident summaries, and self-healing pipeline capabilities.
- Operate Azure data services including ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Key Vault, and Event Hub.
- Design and maintain ADF ingestion pipelines for multi-tenant ERP environments including Yardi, Entrata, and RealPage.
- Build, optimize, administer, and govern Databricks pipelines, workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, Delta tables, and medallion layers.
- Tune Spark jobs for performance, reliability, partitioning, Z-ordering, and cost efficiency.
- Own CI/CD and environment promotion from development through staging to production using GitHub Enterprise and Linear.
- Enforce testing gates, rollback procedures, change documentation, environment parity, platform standards, and release coordination.
- Instrument data quality checks and enforce data contracts, ownership standards, lineage, and quality SLAs.
- Create technical documentation including runbooks, deployment playbooks, post-mortems, ADRs, and platform specifications.
- Collaborate with analytics engineering, data governance, integration, infrastructure, cloud engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and support SLA commitments for business-critical data domains.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of production experience in DataOps, data engineering, or platform engineering.
- Expert hands-on experience with Databricks, including Delta Live Tables, Jobs, Workflows, Unity Catalog, Spark performance tuning, and Delta Lake internals.
- Strong command of Azure data services including Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Key Vault.
- Production experience using AI tools for DataOps or data observability, such as LLM-assisted diagnostics, intelligent alerting, or agentic monitoring.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise CI/CD, branch strategies, pull request automation, environment promotion, and data pipeline release management.
- Solid Python and/or Scala skills and SQL fluency for transformations and data quality validation.
- Hands-on experience designing and orchestrating ADF pipelines at scale.
- Experience with medallion or lakehouse architecture and disciplined multi-environment deployments.
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, governance, and business stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include Linear experience, Databricks Mosaic AI or Genie familiarity, agentic AI or MCP integrations, real estate or multi-source ERP experience, Cosmos DB or Azure SQL experience, governance and lineage knowledge, and legacy BI migration or platform modernization experience.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $120,000–$150,000 annually, with possible quarterly or annual bonuses depending on role and performance.
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, including low or free basic employee-only medical coverage.
- Paid time off including 15 vacation days, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays for new hires, plus a birthday day off after one year.
- Remote work anywhere in the United States except Alaska, with flexible work arrangements.
- Onsite team members may receive housing discounts at Greystar-managed communities subject to availability.
- Six-week paid sabbatical after 10 years of service and every five years thereafter.
- 401(k) with company match up to 6% of pay after six months.
- Paid parental leave and lifetime fertility benefit reimbursement up to $10,000.
- Employee Assistance Program, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, pet insurance, legal plans, and charitable giving benefits.
- Anticipated closing date is December 31, 2026; benefits apply to full-time employees and may vary for union or prevailing-wage roles.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Greystar Real Estate Services, LLC
Greystar Real Estate Services is a privately held global real estate firm focused on institutional‑quality rental housing, providing property management, investment management, development, and construction services for owners and investors. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, it manages and operates over $350 billion of real estate across 260+ markets and is the largest apartment operator in the United States, overseeing more than one million units/beds worldwide.