Staff Data Engineer

Courtyard Inc.

1d • Remote

About The Position

Courtyard is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data foundation our pricing runs on. We price and buy back assets in real time off a fragmented external market, and turning that into something a model can safely consume is the data problem here. You'll be the senior-most data engineering voice in a lean data org — owning architecture and standards, not working a ticket queue.

Requirements

• 5+ years in data engineering with real production pipeline ownership, at senior or staff scope
• Experience taming third-party data at volume — unstable sources, schema drift, no advance notice
• Entity resolution in practice, including the judgment to know when a confident match is wrong
• Deep SQL and Python; production dbt with tests and incremental models you actually maintained
• Strong dimensional modeling — SCD Type 2, incremental loads, backfills, late-arriving data
• Cloud warehouse depth. We run BigQuery and GCP; Redshift, and dbt
• Marketplace or e-commerce data models: orders, payments, refunds, promos, attribution
• Broad enough to navigate backend systems and pair with AI on the hard parts

Nice To Haves

• Pricing or valuation systems
• LLM-assisted extraction
• A real interest in collectibles

Responsibilities

• Own external market data ingestion end to end — acquisition, normalization, and delivery into the warehouse
• Own the canonical item model and the entity resolution that maps messy inbound records onto it
• Build quality and monitoring that catches gaps and degradation before a stakeholder notices
• Own the warehouse layer: dbt modeling, tests, and documentation across marketplace, vault, payments, and event data
• Set schema contracts with product engineering so upstream changes break the build, not the metrics
• Serve pricing and ML with reliable training and feature tables
• Set the engineering bar for the data org and level up DS on production-path work

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage
• Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development
• Flexibility of a fully remote work environment
• 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match
• $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand
• Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed