Data Engineer, Sprout Social
$121-199.6k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus RSUs
All-in-one social media management platform
Be an early applicant
All-in-one social media management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$121-199.6k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations of all sizes become better marketers and create the world’s most beloved brands.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a data engineer with a strong foundation in data infrastructure and a passion for enabling others to succeed through high-quality data
- 2+ years of professional experience in data engineering or at least 2 years of hands on experience building, deploying and maintaining production-grade data infrastructure and pipelines
- Demonstrated proficiency in SQL (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and data modeling; with experience in a variety of business domains. Proficiency in Python
- Experience working in relational and non-relational databases
- Hands on experience with ELT + transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt) and with orchestrators (e.g., Airflow, dbt. dagster)
- Experience building internal data products (curated datasets, semantic layers, or reusable modeling frameworks)
- Proven experience applying standard software development practice to data engineering, including testing, version control, code reviews, incident management, incident CI/CD, documentation, and observability for data
Desirable
- Experience building and maintaining data infrastructure using transformations with dbt or similar tools(and managing semantic layers for Business intelligence (BI) dashboards (e.g. Tableau, Hex, Looker)
- Experience implementing data quality frameworks, testing methodologies, and monitoring practices to ensure data integrity
- Hands-on experience with event-driven or streaming frameworks (Kafka or NSQ, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
- Proven ability to collaborate withcross-functional teams and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Direct experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and implementing cost optimization strategies for data platforms
What the job involves
- This team builds the internal data infrastructure, pipelines, and products that empower analytics, data science, and business stakeholders across Sprout
- While our software engineers are focused on delivering customer-facing platform features, our data engineers specialize in ensuring data is reliable, well-modeled, and accessible to fuel smarter decisions and internal innovation
- Sprout Social empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense potential of social media in today’s digital-first world
- Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform delivers insights and actionable intelligence to more than 30,000 brands
- These insights guide strategic decisions, drive growth, and foster deeper connections with customers
- Our Data Foundations team plays a critical role in this by enabling Sprout’s internal stakeholders—analytics, product, finance, sales, and beyond—to work with trustworthy, scalable, and reusable data
- You’ll be helping build the pipelines, curated datasets, and data products that unlock value across the business and extend Sprout’s data-driven culture
- Design and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows that enable reliable, timely, and scalable data flows
- Collaborate with analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver curated datasets and internal data products
- Implement best practices in schema design, data modeling, and metadata management
- Own and evolve internal data infrastructure for quality, monitoring, and discoverability
- Partner with software engineering teams where application data intersects with internal pipelines—ensuring business-critical data is clean, structured, and usable
- Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Complete Sprout’s New Hire onboarding program and meet peers across Data Foundations, Data Science, Engineering
- Learn the team’s existing data stack, pipelines, and modeling frameworks
- Shadow teammates to understand how internal stakeholders use curated datasets today
- Partner with your manager to scope your first pipeline or modeling task to own
- Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Delivering your first production-ready pipeline, dataset, or internal data product
- Collaborating with analysts and data scientists on requirements for reusable modeling layers
- Gaining deeper familiarity with Sprout’s data warehouse(s) and orchestration environment—and starting to suggest improvements
- Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Taking technical ownership of a set of pipelines or data products relied on by stakeholders across the business
- Proposing and implementing improvements to our pipelines for scalability, reliability, or cost efficiency
- Acting as a mentor to newer members of the Data Foundations team while continuing to grow your own expertise
- Helping shape the team’s roadmap and long-term data foundations strategy
- Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager
Our take
Engagement tools for social media are proving increasingly vital with the rise of social commerce, and brands need to keep a careful eye on customer satisfaction and interaction if the company is to net a profit from this market. Sprout Social is a social media management platform for brands and agencies of all sizes, allowing users to post, manage engagement, and access analytics on a single hub.
With plenty of big-name customers, including Unicef, Chipotle, and Subaru, Sprout Social has developed a trusted and effective brand of its own. It dodged direct competition with social engagement platform Hootsuite by expressly prioritizing its customer service tools, where Sprout Social appears to be generally recognized as superior.
To double down on serving the social commerce market, and carve out a distinctive niche ahead of this eCommerce trend’s anticipated success, Sprout Social has integrated with platforms such as Shopify and Facebook Shops. It is also a member of the TikTok marketing partner program, and has continued to receive accolades for its software.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2018
$40.5m
SERIES D
Feb 2016
$42m
SERIES C
Total funding: $101.5m
Company benefits
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Justyn Howard
(CEO)They were Senior Account Executive at New Horizons, and worked in Learn.com's Executive Account Sales department.
Aaron Rankin
(CTO)They have a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon and were an IT Architect at IBM. They were also a Software Engineer at Endeca, and they are currently an investor with Rankin Family Ventures.
Peter Soung
(Head of Growth)They studied Computer Science at Penn State before working at IBM as a Software Engineer. They also worked as a Sales Engineer at companies such as Endeca.
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