Senior Data Engineer, Justworks
$192.5-211.8k
2+ days a week in office
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.5-211.8k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You love tackling complex data problems and thrive on building and maintaining large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines that directly impact business decisions
- You take pride in creating trusted data assets and scalable infrastructure while collaborating closely with business and engineering partners
- You have a strong sense of ownership, a big-picture mindset, and a bias for action toward delivering realistic and measurable outcomes
- 5+ years of professional hands-on experience in data engineering; at least 2 years working with modern cloud data technologies
- Strong experience with Snowflake—schema design, query optimization, cost governance, and data sharing capabilities
- Highly proficient in SQL and Python, with a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and distributed systems
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using Airflow, dbt, or equivalent orchestration tools
- Expertise with AWS services (S3, Lambda, Fargate, Redshift, Kinesis, etc.), especially in serverless architectures and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with data warehousing and lakehouse patterns, data governance, and cost optimization strategies
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Nice to Have: Experience developing data pipelines that support ML/AI/LLM use cases (e.g., feature stores, model inputs/outputs, vector stores)
- Nice to Have: A strong opinion on preferred data serialization formats (e.g., Parquet, Avro, ORC)—and the pragmatism to use the right tool for the job
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will contribute to the technical vision and long-term data strategy of the Data and Analytics Engineering team
- Evolve and maintain Justworks' trusted data analytics platform, driving operational excellence and innovation across the organization
- Build scalable data pipelines and related tools that ensure high efficiency, trustworthiness, and innovation in our data stack
- Design and implement ETL/ELT processes using modern cloud solutions (Snowflake, Redshift on AWS)
- Maintain and improve data and cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform & AWS Serverless Application Model)
- Transform raw data into business-ready datasets that are queryable, governed, and easily understood by various business units (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, People Ops)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business and engineering teams to understand data requirements and drive solutions
- Ensure the security and privacy of highly sensitive data
- Drive continuous improvements in data cost optimization, observability, and governance
- (Bonus) Build data pipelines that support ML/AI/LLM use cases, enabling AI-powered insights and analytics
- Good Judgment: Apply critical thinking and risk assessment to develop sustainable and scalable solutions
- Resourcefulness: Overcome obstacles creatively and efficiently, optimizing available tools and technologies
- Teamwork & Communication: Foster strong collaboration through clear documentation and cross-team engagement
- Influence & Leadership: Mentor peers, share knowledge, and drive best practices in data engineering
- Continuous Learning: Stay current with modern data technologies, AI/ML trends, and emerging best practices
- Technologies Used
- AWS: S3, Lambda, Fargate, Redshift, MSK, Step Functions, EventBridge, etc
- Languages: Python, SQL, Terraform, CloudFormation
- Data & Analytics: Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Tableau, Meltano
- Workflow Orchestration: Airflow, MWAA
- Observability & Monitoring: Datadog, Metaplane
- CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions
- AI/ML: scikit-learn, xgboost, mlflow, Langsmith, OpenAI, Bedrock, Langchain
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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