Senior Data Engineer

About the role

Join Gusto, a company dedicated to creating a world where work empowers a better life. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will build reliable, scalable, and high-quality data systems that drive real business and customer impact. You will collaborate closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions. Enjoy a range of benefits, including health and wellbeing support, paid time off, free meals, and more. Key missions: Collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive business and customer impact.. Build and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL workflows, ensuring reliability, testability, and maintainability.. Optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems, leveraging AI and automation in data engineering. Profile: - Exemplar problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on clarity, empathy, and shared ownership - 8-10+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products - Functional understanding of how to leverage AI and automation in data engineering — building self-service tools, intelligent pipelines, and agents that automate repetitive tasks - Proven ability to optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems - Proven experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and ETL workflows, with hands-on dbt experience for reliable, testable, and maintainable data transformations - Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production-grade data pipelines - Strong foundation in data modeling, schema design, and data quality best practices, with functional experience working on cloud platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks - Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and data observability to ensure reliability and trust in data systems - Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Scala, or Java) - Hands-on experience ingesting data from diverse sources, including APIs, databases, SaaS applications, and event streams - When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees