Senior Data Platform Engineer

<p><span>Come join a company who is a key leader in the industry scaling the next core commerce infrastructure and on the path from $100M to $500M! Founded in 2012, Salsify helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 80 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. As the market leader globally, our products are shopper-centric, frictionless, and create memorable commerce experiences. </span><span>Our products provide a competitive edge through experiences that improve brand trust, amplify product differentiation and assortments, increase conversion rate, improve profit margins, and speed time to market.</span></p> <p><span>Learn how the world’s largest brands, including Mars, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Bosch, and GSK, as well as retailers and distributors such as E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Metro, and Intermarché use Salsify everyday to stand out on the digital shelf.</span></p> <p><span>At Salsify, we strive to embody an equitable, diverse, and inclusive company culture. We are united across countries, levels, tenures, and a host of other dimensions of diversity. We understand that while work is just one aspect of who we are, a truly inclusive culture accounts for the full authenticity of every single human being that works here. </span></p> <h3><span><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></span></h3><p>As a <strong>Data Platform Engineer</strong>, you will be part of the team responsible for developing and supporting a set processes and systems that empowers teams across Salsify to collect, process, and drive impact using their data.<br/>Salsify’s data needs are rapidly growing, with internal users running thousands of complex queries on our data lake every day, scanning petabytes every month across a rapidly growing number of datasets. Engineers on the Data Platform Team have an outsized impact across all of Salsify, helping to define the future of the business’s data capabilities that best support existing and future needs.</p> <p>Our infrastructure helps teams build a better understanding of what's happening in the platform, engage customers using data, and build products and features utilizing the vast amount of data we have to drive more meaningful usage of the product.<br/>We deeply value our engineering culture. We strongly emphasize trust, mentorship, and collaboration. We care about building the right thing, the right way, and having fun while we do it. Every member of our team has the freedom and responsibility to make Salsify a great place to work. From architecting and designing to building elegant, scalable software, Salsify empowers our engineers to innovate while solving challenging problems.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>How You'll Make an Impact:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define processes, engineer interfaces and tools that make it easy for teams and users within Salsify to collect, process, store and consume data.</li> <li>Collaborate with the product teams to define and build internal and customer-facing data products. You’ll help with the design, development and operationalization of data pipelines.</li> <li>Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on data processing projects and data applications, providing guidance on data modeling, data quality, handling large-scale data, data pipelining, and on implementing these projects using our data infrastructure.</li> <li>Using DataOps principles, improve and expand our data infrastructure, with a focus on observability, reliability, security and quality.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.</li> <li>Practical experience in data modeling, analysis of large data sets, data pipelines and orchestration, ETL, data lakes, data warehousing, and data engineering tools and platforms.</li> <li>Knowledge of core and analytics AWS services such as S3, Athena, Redshift, EMR, Spark</li> <li>Excellent SQL skills; practical knowledge of Python, Java, or Scala.</li> <li>Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform</li> <li>Practical experience with dbt (does not need to be advanced, some hands-on practice is sufficient)<br/><br/><strong>Nice to have:</strong> </li> <li> <ul> <li>Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services and ecosystem.</li> <li>Experience with Databricks or Snowflake</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>#MP1</p><span>At Salsify, we maintain 3 core principles as part of our <strong>Compensation Philosophy</strong>:</span> <ul> <li><span>We pay market rates, which are competitive and equitable</span></li> <li><span>We pay based on performance and proficiency, not tenure</span></li> <li><span>We adjust proactively; when the market moves, we do too</span></li> </ul> <span>The posted compensation range reflects the base salary for this position. In addition to base salary, some eligible roles may also have a commission plan or a bonus incentive. Al