Senior Data Engineer

It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! 

About the role:

8am is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help design and scale the data platform that power analytics, product insights, and machine learning across the company.  In this role, you will own key parts of our data architecture, build reliable data pipelines, and partner closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to turn raw data into decision-driving insights.  You’ll also help set engineering standards, mentor teammates, and drive momentum across the team by improving the way we build, review, and operate data systems.

About us:

At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

What you'll do:

• Lead design discussions around data architecture, modeling strategy, and platform evolution
• Identify opportunities to simplify and scale the data platform
• Drive improvements to data reliability, observability, and data quality
• Establish and promote best practices for data modeling, testing, and code review
• Help the team prioritize work and balance speed with technical quality
• Develop and optimize ETL processes
• Integrate data sources across a broad product portfolio to provide stakeholders access to key information they need to excel at their job
• Mentor other data engineers
• Challenge how business use cases fit together and fit into our product
• Determine and proactively communicate future impacts of proposed or ongoing work
• Help the team mitigate any issues that arise in their product and its ecosystem
• Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting facilitating data access for our BI tools and analytical reporting
• Provide technical guidance to help Data Engineering evolve access to data platform
• Work with engineering to integrate tracking of new functionality into the data ecosystem
• Optimize the performance of business-critical queries
• Explain why the projects their team is working on have been prioritized over other projects

About you:

• 7+ years of data engineering experience 
• Experience with data warehouses and large-scale analytics systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
• Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and data platforms
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
• Experience building and maintaining relational as well as  document, key-value, and other noSQL databases
• Advanced Python & SQL skills
• Experience working with third-party APIs for data integration
• Experience with business process automation
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (or similar combination of education and experience)
• Spark and Redshift experience (PySpark preferred)
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Experience with event or streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• CI/CD experience

Additional Information
The annual salary range for this position is $150,000 to $175,000. The salary range for performing this role outside of the US / Austin / California may differ.  8am is committed to offering competitive, fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and education.

Why 8am: 

At 8am, our culture is shaped by the people who bring it to life every day. Together, we build a company rooted in continuous learning, genuine community, holistic wellness, and meaningful engagement—values that empower us as individuals and unite us as a team. Our culture is grounded in our core val