Senior Staff Data Engineer

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Data Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Staff Data Engineer will lead data ingestion within the Data Platform team. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing data ingestion pipelines to ensure reliable data flow into the enterprise data warehouse. Responsibilities include defining best practices for data governance, implementing data observability, and partnering with various teams. The engineer will also monitor and enhance data ingestion performance and security. The work will directly empower analytics, data science, and product development. This position requires expertise in data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. The candidate will also provide technical mentorship to other engineers. The engineer will also research emerging technologies and advocate for innovations.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on data ingestion.
  • Experience in designing and managing data ingestion frameworks.
  • Expertise in data observability and monitoring tools.
Good to have:
  • Experience with event tracking, behavioral analytics, and CDP data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with DBT for data transformation.
  • Understanding of data science and machine learning pipelines.
Perks:
  • Market competitive pay.
  • Rich healthcare benefits and supportive time off policies.
  • Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning.
  • A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.
  • Learning & development and recognition programs.
  • “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
  • Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities.

Job Details

Want to help us help others? We’re hiring! 

GoFundMe is a global community of over 150 million people who come together every day with the common purpose of helping one another. Our mission is to help people help each other through our best in class technology. In 2022, GoFundMe joined together with Classy, a leading nonprofit fundraising software company that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Together, we have empowered people and organizations to raise more than $30 billion since 2010. Our vision is to become the most helpful place in the world.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead the data ingestion workstream within our Data Platform team.

In this role, you will own the strategy, design, and implementation of data ingestion pipelines, ensuring that high-quality, reliable, and well-structured data is available in our enterprise data warehouse. Your work will directly empower analytics, data science, and data-driven product development, fueling our mission to drive a culture of generosity worldwide. This position requires deep expertise in data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration across diverse technologies, as well as a passion for data observability, pipeline reliability, and proactive monitoring.

This is a hybrid position based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job…

  • Lead the design, development, and optimization of data ingestion pipelines, ensuring timely, scalable, and reliable data flows into the enterprise data warehouse (Snowflake).
  • Define and implement best practices for data ingestion, transformation, governance, and observability, ensuring consistency, data quality, and compliance across multiple data sources.
  • Develop and maintain data ingestion frameworks that support batch, streaming, and event-driven data pipelines.
  • Implement and maintain data observability tools to monitor pipeline health, track data lineage, and detect anomalies before they impact downstream users.
  • Design and enforce automated data quality checks, validation rules, and anomaly detection to ensure trust in data.
  • Own and optimize ETL/ELT orchestration (Airflow, Prefect) and ensure efficient, cost-effective data processing.
  • Monitor and enhance data ingestion reliability, performance, and security, ensuring data pipelines scale effectively as the business grows.
  • Partner with data engineering, software engineering, and platform teams to integrate data from transactional systems, streaming services, and third-party APIs.
  • Provide technical mentorship to other engineers on data observability best practices, monitoring strategies, and pipeline reliability.
  • Research emerging technologies and advocate for innovations that improve data availability, freshness, and accessibility.

You have…

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipeline design, and large-scale data processing.
  • Proven experience in designing and managing data ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
  • Expertise in data observability and monitoring tools (Monte Carlo, Databand, Bigeye, or similar).
  • Strong experience with batch and real-time data ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming, or equivalent).
  • Proficiency in orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
  • Strong understanding of data lineage, anomaly detection, and proactive issue resolution in data pipelines.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing and automation.
  • Strong knowledge of API-based data integration and experience working with third-party data sources.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake and best practices for data warehouse ingestion and management.
  • Experience working with data governance, security best practices, and compliance standards.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have…

  • Experience with event tracking, behavioral analytics, and CDP data pipelines (GA, Heap, Segment, RudderStack, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with DBT for data transformation.
  • Understanding of data science and machine learning pipelines and how ingestion supports these workflows.

 

Why you’ll love it here...

  • Market competitive pay.
  • Rich healthcare benefits and supportive time off policies.
  • Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, and family planning.
  • A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.
  • Learning & development and recognition programs.
  • “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
  • Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities, and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our team is always finding new ways for our company to uphold and represent the experiences of all of the people in our organization.
  • Employee resource groups.
  • Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale.
  • You’ll be a part of a fun, supportive team that works hard and celebrates accomplishments together. 
  • We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.
  • We are a certified Great Place to Work, are growing fast and have incredible opportunities ahead!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to providing diversity, equity, and inclusion training to all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, or military or veteran status.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com.

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