[Remote] Data Engineer (Early Career) (Canada)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jobright is your personal AI job search agent that transforms the way you do job search from solo, time-consuming efforts to a fast, expert-guided journey, simplifying every job search step and accelerating your route to the best job outcomes. The Data Engineer will design and build data pipelines, manage ETL/ELT processes, and ensure data quality while collaborating with various teams to meet their data needs. Responsibilities • Design and build reliable data pipelines that move data from diverse sources into centralized warehouses and lakes for downstream consumption • Own the full lifecycle of ETL/ELT processes, from schema design and ingestion to transformation, testing, and deployment • Ensure data quality and consistency by implementing validation checks, anomaly detection, and automated alerting across critical pipelines • Partner with analytics, data science, and product teams to understand their data needs and deliver clean, well-documented datasets • Optimize query performance, storage costs, and pipeline reliability as data volumes and complexity grow Skills • Recent graduate or early-career professional (0–2 years of experience) with a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience writing and debugging data transformation logic • Practical understanding of data modeling, warehouse design patterns, and the trade-offs between batch and streaming architectures • Solid software engineering foundations, including comfort with APIs, version control (Git), and writing testable, production-ready code • Previous internship or project experience building end-to-end data pipelines or managing datasets at non-trivial scale • Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks • Hands-on exposure to orchestration tools like Airflow, dbt, or Prefect, and streaming technologies like Kafka or Spark Streaming • Curiosity about how data powers product decisions, and a willingness to dig into messy, ambiguous data problems Company Overview • Jobright is your personal AI job search agent that transforms the way you do job search from solo, time-consuming efforts to a fast, expert-guided journey, simplifying every job search step and accelerating your route to the best job outcomes. It was founded in 2023, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://jobright.ai.