Senior Data Engineer 2

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog is the fastest growing pet health service company in the US, and was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care – a fresh proposition in an industry riddled with manipulative and misleading marketing. We’re starting by radically improving the $100 billion pet food market, replacing bulk bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends healthy, freshly-made dog food, balanced by top veterinary nutritionists, directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, honest, and delightful experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic and forward-thinking culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future. 

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered hundreds of millions of meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to our customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In

We have big ambitions, our mission is to give dog lovers true peace of mind by helping them do the best for their dogs – this will require us to completely reimagine how we care for our dogs and drive meaningful shifts in an industry that is desperate for change. We don’t believe this is possible by implementing “best practices” or operating how the rest of the industry operates. 

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have the necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms to solve problems holistically. 

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing:  Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own.  We proactively source input.  We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.   

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions:  We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is.  We ensure our strategy sets customers up for success and drives long-term retention.  We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. 

We execute for impact:  We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – e.g., data engineers are considered responsible for driving impact through end-to-end initiatives, never stopping at just data ingestion.  We work to understand the data, what it means and what the impact of what we are seeing is, and ensure that our stakeholders have all the information they need to make decisions.  

Where You'll Come In

The Farmer’s Dog is looking for a Senior Data Engineer 2 to join our growing team. In this role, you will build production facing tools on top of a petabyte-scale warehouse, and work directly with data customers to support analytics and reporting needs. Your work will enable data scientists, data analysts, and product teams to create and access information at a massive scale, and you will have opportunities to develop new data infrastructure and architecture  from the ground up. You will know when to use existing tools instead of reinventing the wheel. If you have a passion for building and maintaining high quality code, and want to improve how The Farmer’s Dog makes strategic decisions at the company level, then this is the team for you!

How You'll Make An Impact

• Own all aspects of the data, from the point it is recorded until it reaches the intended audience or user including oversight of those between 3rd parties
• Write production level code that processes millions of events per day 
• Audit, design, and maintain a high-performing data pipeline architecture for structured and unstructured use cases around reporting, analytics, machine learning and data science
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards, best practices, tenants, and data management & g