Staff Engineer, Data (Remote, US)
About The Position
At Renew Home, we are committed to transforming how residential energy is managed across North America. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will serve as a foundational technical leader shaping our end-to-end data platform strategy, real-time streaming pipelines, and enterprise data lakehouse ecosystem. You will architect high-throughput, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of processing streaming device telemetry from millions of connected homes to support scalable analytics, operational insights, and machine learning initiatives. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful technical leadership responsibility. You will act as a force multiplier across the engineering organization by mentoring engineers, incorporating feedback, influencing engineering culture, and helping shape how we work.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software and data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architectural leadership at scale.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating production-grade high-volume batch and real-time data streaming architectures using technologies like GCP PubSub, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
- Deep expertise in building scalable data lake architectures (AWS S3, Iceberg, AWS Glue, Delta Lake) and managing structured and unstructured device telemetry data.
- Expert hands-on proficiency in database design, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and partitioning with AWS Redshift and PostgreSQL Aurora.
- Mastery of Python and SQL with strong software engineering principles, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDKTF and AWS CDK.
- Self-starter with exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of turning complex ambiguous problems into clean, scalable technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering talent, drive cross-functional alignment, and champion data infrastructure best practices across multiple teams.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience optimizing enterprise-scale data warehouses and leveraging advanced Redshift capabilities (e.g., Redshift Spectrum, concurrency scaling, Workload Management).
- Hands-on experience with big data engines (e.g., Apache Spark, Ray) or building end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines.
- Active contributions to open-source data ecosystems or relevant advanced certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, GCP Professional Data Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Professional).
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term data architecture vision, roadmap, and design standards across Renew Home's virtual power plant ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and resilience.
- Lead the design and implementation of fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming data infrastructure capable of continuously processing data from millions of connected devices.
- Collaborate closely with application and analytics engineering teams to drive data architecture vision and delivery.
- Direct database architecture and continuous performance tuning across PostgreSQL Aurora, AWS Redshift, and query engines through advanced indexing, partitioning, and workload management strategies.
- Set high technical standards for data pipeline development, monitoring, data quality, and uptime; actively lead infrastructure management and support operations in our on-call rotation
- Mentor and guide senior and mid-level data engineers, promoting engineering best practices, architectural design reviews, and technical growth across the organization.
- Continuously evaluate, prototype, and integrate modern data technologies and frameworks (e.g., Python, Redshift, Postgres, AWS/GCP, Lambda, Kinesis, Prefect, Iceberg, Terraform) to ensure optimal system evolution.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Target annual bonus of 15% of base salary
- Participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance
- Fully remote work environment
- Home office set-up allowance
- No pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!)
- Parental leave benefits
- Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits
- 401(k) plan, with employer contributions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
