Senior Data Engineer

What is Cirkul?

Cirkul is a rapidly growing beverage technology company on a mission to make a healthier world by helping people enjoy drinking more water.

The team at Cirkul developed an innovative beverage delivery system that makes drinking more water delicious, fun, and personalized. The technology reduces the shipping weight of bottled beverages by 96% and uses 84% less plastic. Cirkul offers its customers 100+ unique flavors, all with no sugar, zero calories, no artificial colors, and a range of functional enhancements online, at Walmart, and other retailers across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of consumers are using Cirkul to transition from single-use plastics and sugar-filled beverages to healthier, better-for-you alternatives.

What is this role?

As a Senior Data Engineer at Cirkul, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure. You will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to develop data pipelines, optimize performance, and ensure data integrity across our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional to contribute to impactful data projects and drive data strategy for a rapidly growing company.

The Senior Data Engineer will ensure an optimal delivery of initiatives across Data Pipeline Design and Development, Data Warehousing and Modeling, and Performance Optimization. They will also mentor data engineers on the team and collaborate cross-functionally to set the strategic roadmap and execute.

What does an average day look like?

• Driving Results: Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Python and/or Node.js, SQL (using dbt for transformation), commercial SaaS and OSS offerings, and AWS big data technologies.
• Taking Ownership: Integrate DevOps/SRE practices on the data team by solving for performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Making Decisions: Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Cultivating Relationships: Work with stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Instilling Trust: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Customer Focus: Manage infrastructure and configuration of data platform in the Cloud, ensuring health, reliability and uptime.

What background should you have?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. Advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role at a fast-paced organization with a proven track record of designing and implementing data pipelines, data warehouses, and data models.
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including expertise in performance tuning and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse) and data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka).
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Proficiency in ETL tools and frameworks, such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, or similar.
• Experience with data integration tools and techniques, including RESTful APIs and data ingestion methods.
• Knowledge of data visualization tools and reporting platforms (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI) is a plus.
• Experience with modern columnar data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary based on experience and market.
• Generous benefits, 401k match, and PTO (even insurance for your fur babies!).
• Employee discounts on Cirkul products.
• New corporate office space with great amenities.
• Opportunity to work with a best-in-class team, in a hyper-growth company, taking over the hydration industry.
• A culture that rewards results.

Cirkul, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and are committed to sustaining an equitable and inclusive, people-first environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.