Data Engineer

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest and transform financial, education, and employment data

• Ensure data is reliable, timely, and accessible across internal teams and external partners

• Proactively identify and resolve data quality issues, including upstream dependencies

• Partner with stakeholders in finance, operations and business development departments to ensure that their data sets are reliably ingested into our data warehouse and their questions or reports can be answered programmatically

• Ensure via automated testing and edge case handling that we can detect any errors with upstream data or data processing and that all reports contain the data as expected

• Develop processes to anonymize and protect sensitive data across environments

• Support the configuration and optimization of data warehouse, storage, and compute resources

• Partner in managing infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) to ensure reproducibility and scalability

• Monitor performance and cost efficiency of data workloads, identifying opportunities for optimization

• Contribute to improving the reliability, scalability, and observability of our data platform

• 3+ years of experience as a data engineer, or equivalent experience building data pipelines

• 2+ years of experience with elements of the following technologies:

• Data Analytics: Airflow, DBT

• Business Intelligence Systems: Tableau, Looker, Sisense, Apache Superset, etc.

• Languages: Python, SQL

• Databases: SQL; NoSQL a bonus

• Bonus – Data Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.

• Bonus -- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS or Google Cloud Experience

• Bonus -- DevOps: Experience with modern cloud and container tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate the complexities of technical programs to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

• Desire to mentor and collaborate with other members of the team

• Willingness to roll your sleeves up to rapidly acquire competencies in a wide range of technical disciplines

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

• Modern tech stack with the ability to have impact to many different user personas - recruiters, students and more

• High autonomy working in a highly collaborative team

• Can grow into a more formal people management role – expectation though is to be very hands on

• Step into being a 10x engineer and ride the AI wave with a team doubling down on how this technology allows us to focus on harder problems and solve for our customer’s needs without compromising on quality

To ensure smooth collaboration with the Boston-based team, we are limiting to Eastern/Central timezones with the expectation that it will be Boston hours. Additionally, they must be within 1 hour of a medium hub/ large airport with multiple daily flights to Boston. We are targeting the broader New England area to start as we expect that the candidate to have frequent travel to Boston for onboarding and ongoing collaboration.

If you are a highly driven individual with a passion for technology, and you thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you! Join us in revolutionizing the workforce solution industry and making a meaningful impact on businesses worldwide. Apply now to be a part of our growing team!

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents. Clasp is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We embrace diversity and are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.