Data Engineer at Motive delivering data infrastructure for the AI era. Collaborating with stakeholders, building models, and implementing innovative tooling.
About the role
- Staff Data Engineer responsible for modernizing analytics platforms and ensuring data governance across business domains at Dropbox. Collaborating with cross-functional teams for efficient data pipelines and governance standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of shared, reusable data models, defining shared fact tables, conformed dimensions, and a semantic/metrics layer that serves as the single source of truth across analytics functions
- Drive standardization of data engineering practices across ADE and functional analytics teams, including pipeline patterns, CI/CD workflows, naming conventions, and data modeling standards
- Partner with Data Infrastructure to modernize orchestration, improve pipeline decomposition, and establish secure dev/test environments with production data access
- Architect and implement a shift-left data governance strategy, working with upstream data producers to establish data contracts, SLOs, and code-enforced quality gates that catch issues before production
- Collaborate with Data Science leads and Product Management to translate metric definitions into reliable, certified data pipelines that power executive dashboards, WBR reporting, and growth measurement
- Reduce operational burden by improving pipeline granularity, observability, and failure recovery, establishing runbooks and alerting standards that make on-call sustainable
- Evaluate and integrate AI-native tooling into the data development lifecycle, enabling conversational data exploration with guardrails and AI-assisted pipeline development
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- 12+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering with increasing scope and technical leadership
- 12+ years of SQL experience, including complex analytical queries, window functions, and performance optimization at scale (Spark SQL)
- 8+ years of Python development experience, including building and maintaining production data pipelines
- Deep expertise in dimensional data modeling, schema design, and scalable data architecture, with hands-on experience building shared data models across multiple business domains
- Strong experience with orchestration tools (Airflow strongly preferred) and dbt, including pipeline design, scheduling strategies, and failure recovery patterns
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical alignment, establishing standards, influencing without authority, and working across Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Infrastructure, and Product Engineering boundaries.
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