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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** GUSTO DEMOS, LLC
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $185,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, BigQuery, Software as a Service, Databases, Information Engineering, Data Transformation, Data Systems, DataOps, Snowflake, Data Pipelines, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** August 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/senior-data-engineer/10695574

## About the Role

* 8-10+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products
 * Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Scala, or Java)
 * Proven experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and ETL workflows, with hands-on dbt experience for reliable, testable, and maintainable data transformations.
 * Hands-on experience ingesting data from diverse sources, including APIs, databases, SaaS applications, and event streams.
 * Strong foundation in data modeling, schema design, and data quality best practices, with functional experience working on cloud platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks.
 * Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and data observability to ensure reliability and trust in data systems
 * Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production-grade data pipelines
 * Proven ability to optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems
 * Functional understanding of how to leverage AI and automation in data engineering - building self-service tools, intelligent pipelines, and agents that automate repetitive tasks
 * Exemplar problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
 * Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on clarity, empathy, and shared ownership

## Description

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can take loosely defined problems and drive them end-to-end-from framing the problem and aligning stakeholders to designing, building, and delivering durable data solutions. You'll partner closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact., Build and own Otto, Gusto's LLM agent platform end-to-end: runtime, tool/action layer, Rails/GraphQL backend, advocate-facing frontend, and eval/observability systems. Expand safe autonomous actions, work with LLMs and retrieval, partner with Product/Data/Design/CX, and mentor engineers to ship reliable agentic features.
Top Skills: Agent FrameworksEvalsFederated BackendsGraphQLJavaScriptLlm RuntimeLlmsReactRetrievalRuby On Rails
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