Senior Data Engineer

Quick take: Axios is a growth-stage company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We’re hiring a remote Senior Data Engineer to join our Consumer Insights data team! 

Why it matters: As a Senior Data Engineer, this person will collaborate with other data engineers, scientists, analysts, and product managers to drive forward data initiatives across mission-critical Axios products. The team is responsible for analyzing consumer behavior, preferences, and feedback, to allow Axios to tailor products, services, and marketing strategies effectively.

Go deeper: As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a leadership role in building and delivering solutions to problems in an intelligent and nuanced way. In this role, you will make an impact on Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Architect and build data products and features that provide consumer insights about Axios’ audience
• Hands-on development and execution against the team’s roadmap in collaboration with other data engineers, analysts, scientists, and quality engineers. 
• Technical and architectural decision-making
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and warehouses to support Axios in data-informed decision-making 
• Writing clean, well-documented, and well-tested code primarily in SQL/Python
• Provide technical insights, and feasibility assessments, communicate technical constraints to the team’s Product Manager
• Estimate efforts of technical implementation to aid in planning and sequencing of developmental tasks
• Mentoring less experienced members of the team through pair programming and empathetic code review
• Share knowledge through presenting at data chapter meetings and demoing to team members and stakeholders
• Staying up to date with industry trends and collaborating on best practices

The details: Ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit, be highly collaborative, exhibit a passion for building technology products, and have the following qualifications:

• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies
• Experience building data applications in languages such as (but not limited to) Python, SQL, Bash, Jinja, Terraform 
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to produce insights
• Experience with functional design and dimensional data modeling
• Experience with DBT and semantic data models
• Experience with data pipeline development and data orchestration systems such as Airflow
• Practical experience with columnar data warehouses, such as Redshift
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and understanding best deployment practices for data products 
• Proven ability to ship high-quality, testable, and accessible code quickly
• Experience working in and around cloud providers such as AWS

 Bonus experiences:

• Experience working in and around AWS data services
• Experience working with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers or supporting MLOps 
• Experience working with MapReduce and Spark clusters
• Experience successfully working with data product managers
• Experience working in Media 

What Axios brings to the table besides salary:

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate 
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies 
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers 
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

Starting salary for this role is in the range of $140,000 - $190,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation benefits.