Staff Data Engineer, DAT
$134-175k
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Target Bonus
More information about location
Digital freight marketplace
Be an early applicant
Digital freight marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$134-175k
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Target Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver actionable information and solutions that help customers succeed.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 7+ years of relevant professional engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Data Engineering: Strong data engineering background working with dbt, Snowflake, Kafka, and cloud-based services (AWS S3, EMR, Glue)
- Infrastructure & Tooling: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Airflow, Tableau, MySQL, and Oracle
- Software Engineering: Deep knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full technology management life cycle; experience with Agile is preferred
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an interest in continuous learning and improvement
What the job involves
- Platform Evolution: Lead the design and evolution of our modern data platform architecture, ensuring it remains scalable, available, and performant
- Pattern Implementation: Apply in-depth knowledge of advanced architectural patterns—such as Event Driven, CQRS, event sourcing, and Saga patterns—to solve complex data challenges
- Technical Governance: Develop, document, and communicate standard methods and processes to be utilized within our technology stack, including dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, and traditional ETL
- Strategic Collaboration: Act as a key partner to senior leadership on strategic data projects and build strong working relationships with other IT leaders by providing technical acumen and thought leadership
- Enterprise-Scale Infrastructure: Architect and manage enterprise-scale data platforms while setting best practices for development teams, including security, privacy, monitoring & alerting, and CI/CD
- Advanced Data Modeling: Implement sophisticated data modeling strategies, including Kimball, Inmon, or Data Vault, and drive the transition toward modern concepts like Data Mesh
- Complex Problem Solving: Provide solutions for complex business problems, enabling insights that can empower better decision-making across the organization
- Operational Excellence: Set and enforce best practices for the full software development and technology management life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, and testing
- Culture of Excellence: Take an active role in fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the engineering organization
- Influence through Data: Leverage data to prioritize work and influence others across the organization
- Change Management: Proactively implement change and improvements when seeing opportunities to optimize the platform or processes
- Current Technologies Being Used Today:
- Data Warehouse: Snowflake, Oracle, MySQL
- Transformation: dbt (data build tool)
- Orchestration: Apache Airflow
- Programming: Python, SQL
- Streaming: Kafka
- Cloud: AWS (S3, EMR, Glue)
- Infrastructure: Terraform
Application process
- Job Application Deadline: 09/30/2026
Our take
DAT Freight & Analytics operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America, deploying freight-matching and analytics solutions to companies all across the freight logistics industry. At its core, the company exists to help businesses optimize their freight operations and achieve pricing power over a hyper-dynamic marketplace.
The company derives its data from the millions of freight matches powered by its platform, as well as a database of market transactions. This enables it to provide transportation brokers, carriers, industry analysts and other organizations with clear and actionable insights into market trends.
Having been a market leader for over 40 years, the company has grown from being a single bulletin board at a gas station in Oregon to seeing its technology deployed to millions of end users. DAT has been consistently focused on R&D and the expansion of its offering, including by acquisitions such as that of the freight-matching Convoy Platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Remote/hybrid flexibility
- 20 days PTO from day one, plus 10 paid holidays annually
- Wellness allowance
- Parental leave
- Career development paths
- Leadership training, mentorship programs, education reimbursement & industry certifications
- Performance bonuses & annual merit increases
- Immediate 401(k) matching
- Stock purchase program
- Premium health coverage, plus dental & vision
- Mental health support
- FSA/HSA options
- Life insurance
Company HQ
Denver Tech Center, Greenwood Village, CO
Leadership
Jeff Clementz
(President and CEO)Formerly CEO and President at Shift, SVP/GM of Marketplace and Partner Operations at Walmart (where they spent 6 years) and VP/MD for Australian and NZ at PayPal (where they spent 12 years).
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