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# Senior Software Engineer II, Data

- **Company:** Narvar, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Cloud Database, Code Generation, Code Review, Data Governance, Database Queries, Software Debugging, Dimensional Modeling, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Operational Databases, Transaction Data, Large Language Models, Data Layers, Data Lineage, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8blez1vl7

## About the Role

_We care about judgment and ownership over credentials.

_You're Likely a Strong Fit If You

 * Have 5-8 years of experience building and operating production data systems
 * Have strong SQL skills and are proficient in Python, with flexibility to pick up other languages as needed. Comfortable building and maintaining APIs.
 * Have worked with modern data stacks on cloud platforms (GCP preferred, but AWS or Azure transfers well), including cloud data warehouses like BigQuery, ELT patterns, and orchestration with Airflow
 * Understand data modeling deeply - dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, incremental processing
 * Treat data quality, lineage, and observability as first-class engineering concerns
 * Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and are comfortable working cross-functionally
 * Already use AI and agentic coding tools as a core part of how you work for planning, code generation, debugging, and code review.

Signals That You'll Thrive Here

These Aren't Hard Requirements, But Strong Indicators

 * You've worked in startup or high-ownership environments where you wore multiple hats
 * You've built or maintained embedded analytics or multi-tenant data products
 * You're excited about making data accessible to AI systems, whether that's through better metadata, semantic layers, or preparing datasets for agentic workflows
 * You care about cost optimization and data governance

## Description

* Design, build, and operate data pipelines that process terabytes of transactional data daily using Airflow/Composer and BigQuery
 * Own end-to-end data models and transformations that power merchant analytics, operational reporting, and ML features
 * Build and maintain embedded analytics infrastructure - the data products our merchants interact with directly
 * Evolve our data platform on GCP, including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and CDC datastreams
 * Improve data quality and reliability through testing, observability, alerting, and validation frameworks
 * Own data lineage, metadata, and documentation, and help prepare our data layer for agentic and LLM-powered use cases with semantic clarity and standardized metric definitions
 * Collaborate cross-functionally with product, ML, and GTM teams, and contribute to technical direction through design docs and architecture decisions


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