Lead Data Engineer

What is Cirkul?

Cirkul is a rapidly growing beverage technology company on a mission to make a healthier world by helping people enjoy drinking more water.

The team at Cirkul developed an innovative beverage delivery system that makes drinking more water delicious, fun, and personalized. The technology reduces the shipping weight of bottled beverages by 96% and uses 84% less plastic. Cirkul offers its customers 100+ unique flavors, all with no sugar, zero calories, no artificial colors, and a range of functional enhancements online, at Walmart, and other retailers across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of consumers are using Cirkul to transition from single-use plastics and sugar-filled beverages to healthier, better-for-you alternatives.

What is this role?

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our growing data team. Our new team member will manage Cirkul’s data pipeline architecture and optimize data flow and collection. Ideally they will have experience in site reliability and devops, configuring tooling to ensure health, uptime and reliability of our cloud infrastructure.

The Senior Data Engineer will support our data initiatives and will ensure an optimal data delivery architecture that is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be a self-starter, and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate should be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiative.

What does an average day look like?

• Driving Results: Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Python and/or Node.js, SQL (using dbt for transformation), commercial SaaS and OSS offerings, and AWS ‘big data’ technologies. Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Taking Ownership: Manage infrastructure and configuration of data platform in the Cloud, ensuring health, reliability and uptime.
• Making Decisions: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Cultivating Relationships: Work with stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Instilling Trust: Integrate DevOps/SRE practices on the data team by solving for performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Customer Focus: Onboard retail partners, standing up automated data ingestion pipelines, ensuring data integrity.

What background should you have?

• 8+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role at a fast-paced organization.
• 3+ years of production experience with AWS, including EC2, EMR, RDS.
• 3+ years of experience in devops or site reliability engineering (SRE), directly responsible for automated configuration, management and scalability of Cloud and infrastructure processes.
• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration management tools and technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Advanced working knowledge of Python or similar scripting language.
• Exceptional fluency with SQL; you conquered the join venn diagram long ago and have moved on to explaining cost based optimization to your peers on the engineering team.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect, with big data tools such as Kafka & Spark, and with dbt.
• Experience with modern columnar data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
• Experience ingesting, processing, and visualizing data sources of varying types - structured/relational and unstructured.
• Experience developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Compensation Description

The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Compensation (including base salary) may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. This role may be eligible for additional discretionary compensation such as bonuses / incentives, and equity. Your Cirkul HR representative can share more specific details for a particular job location during the hiring process.

Annual Base Salary

$150,000 — $180,000 USD

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary based on experience and market.
• Generous benefits, 401k match, and PTO (even insurance for your fur babies!).
• Employee discounts on Cirkul products.
• New corporate office space with great amenities.
• Opportunity to work with a best in class team, in a hyper growth company, taking over the hydration industry.
• A culture that rewards results.

Cirkul, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and are committed to sustaining an equitable and inclusive, people-first environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents.