Director of Data and Analytics Engineering

Who We Are

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The Farmer’s Dog is the fastest growing pet health service company in the US, and was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.

We’re starting by radically improving the $100 billion pet food market, replacing bulk bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends healthy, freshly-made dog food, balanced by top veterinary nutritionists, directly to customers’ doors.

Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, honest, and delightful experiences across all aspects of pet care.

What We Stand For

Our best ideas and competitive advantages come from direct engagement and understanding of our customers.

Customer obsession : You will be living in quantum entanglement with your customers. You’ll breathe their air, walk in their shoes.

You’ll establish mechanisms to make sure your partners do the same.

Work small, but with a big vision : You work small and are able to work with the design and engineering teams on small iterations.

Data-driven decision-making : We use first principles and are skeptical. It’s paramount to have confidence in your data, being able to analyze it, and tease out noise from signals.

Problem focused development : You focus on teasing apart the key customer problems and pain points.

Execute for impact : We are responsible for the growth of the business and the perception of our brand.

One team mentality : We seek the truth deeply and aren’t afraid to challenge leadership and the status quo.

Where You'll Come In

We’re looking for an experienced Director of Data Engineering to oversee building production-facing tools on top of a petabyte-scale warehouse, and work directly with data customers to support analytics and reporting needs.

You will lead the vision, strategy and execution to enable data scientists, data analysts, and product teams to create and access information at a massive scale.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Define and execute the vision, roadmap and strategy for the Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering group.
• Lead our Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers by providing career growth, support and effective feedback.
• Mentor Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers on production level code that processes millions of events per day using core Python & SQL.
• Own all aspects of the data, from the point it is recorded until it reaches its intended audience.
• Consistently evaluate our data ingestion, modeling and transformation practices for scale.
• Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business to understand their needs.
• Build and scale data orchestration services that support complex analysis.
• Define and manage SLAs for datasets that support production services.
• Design and implement tooling for access management, monitoring, data controls, and self-service ETL / Analytics pipelines.
• Be a thought partner to Product, Engineering, and key partners at the Farmer’s Dog.

We're Excited About You Because

• 8+ years working in either a data or software engineering related field.
• 5+ years working with Data directly.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• 2+ years of recent experience working with GCP / AWS.
• Familiar with patterns and architectures involved in ingestion, transformation, queueing, and querying of terabytes of data.
• Ability to put together an entire ETL pipeline from scratch.
• Strong SQL and No-SQL experience.
• Expert in Python who is comfortable working in a production environment.
• Experience working with dbt, airflow, or similar data processing tools.
• Solid data modeling skills.
• High energy and action-oriented with a passion for getting things done.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the company.

Office Guidelines

The office is open and available for all Monday through Friday. We ask all team members to be in office a minimum of 2-3 days a week to build a collaborative and invested environment.

A Few Of Our Best Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation and equity packages.
• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision.
• 12 week paid parental leave.
• Competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Flexible paid time off policy.
• Discounted fresh food for your pup.

For this role the anticipated hiring base compensation range is $220,000 - $255,000 USD Annual and the compensation offered will include a robust market competitive package of base, bonus and equity.

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