Staff Data Engineer
About The Position
CookUnity is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join their dynamic and innovative Data Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to build an entirely new system and establish engineering foundations and principles across the organization. The successful candidate will partner closely with the engineering team to translate data needs into scalable, production-ready solutions. They will design and build new data pipelines and systems that will form the future base of CookUnity's B2C data engineering stack, and establish best practices and patterns for the entire data engineering organization. This position is ideal for someone excited about rebuilding key components of a rapidly growing product to enable graceful scaling, reduce system complexity, facilitate product experimentation, and empower product teams to build features faster.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
- Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with deep expertise in data processing tech and in writing complex SQL queries.
- Proven track record of driving innovation within highly technical, distributed teams. You have driven complex projects to completion and are motivated by solving high-impact problems and building for the best user UX.
- Proven track record in designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, Flink, Kafka), and handling large data sets.
- Demonstrable experience of building, productionalizing, and optimizing real-time and batch data pipelines.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing data architectures to power a variety of use cases, including enabling experimentation
- Be opinionated on engineering best practices and help contribute to our strong engineering culture.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, containers, etc).
- Past experience working in a rapid growth company or an early stage startup environment.
- A passion for food!
Responsibilities
- Design and build net new resilient batch and real-time data pipelines that power critical products and drive rapid business growth.
- Design and build data pipelines facilitating the migration from existing disparate data models and data sources, into new data models and databases in production.
- Champion data reliability and performance by implementing proactive monitoring and quality-first engineering practices.
- Optimize data models to support fast, efficient decision-making across high-impact product and business use cases.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to quickly translate evolving business needs into scalable, production-ready data solutions.
- Shape the future of data engineering at scale, helping define the long-term roadmap and setting best practices as we grow.
- Coach and level up teammates, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate strong self-direction and thrive in environments with high ambiguity, making sound decisions even when clear solutions are not readily apparent.
Benefits
- Health Insurance coverage
- 401k Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
- Paid Family leave
- Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
- AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.
- Wellness perks: access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
- Personalized Spanish coach
- Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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