Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform

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Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by creating experiences people love at prices they can’t believe.

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Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by creating experiences people love at prices they can’t believe. We believe that investing in world-class technology will facilitate a new class of insurance products, driving a massive positive impact on the hundreds of millions of drivers who carry auto insurance in the US. Root’s Engineering team is committed to building a flexible platform on which our product designers and quantitative scientists can quickly test ideas, deploy them into production, and iterate, with the ultimate objective of a delightful customer experience coupled with effective risk management.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team to drive marketing operations, finance, analytics, and data science enablement at Root. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding complex technical implementations with engineers on your team or aligned to your domain, supporting marketing and data science workflows and delivery, and working with a broad set of stakeholders to define the strategy and overall roadmap for the domain. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help us make decisions and deliver software with lasting effects on the order of quarters and years.

Nice to Have

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Partner with Marketing, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come.
Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams.
Coach and guide engineers on your team in planning experiments and projects that align with our strategic objectives.
Contribute code each development cycle to advance the impact of the team.
Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems.
Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

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→4+ years as a software engineer
→Expertise in Python, Terraform, SQL, Spark, Airflow, and dbt
→Expertise in Cloud Architecture - AWS Preferred
→Expertise in Machine Learning Operations (Preferred)
→Expertise in Data Driven Marketing (Preferred)
→Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
→Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders

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