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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Drata Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $151,700.0 - $205,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Airflow, Data Analysis, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Minimum Data Set, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Data Ingestion, Snowflake, Machine Learning Operations, Looker Analytics
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f0479ad5-059d-4539-981e-7299e76b913d

## About the Role

* You have 5+ years experience as a Data Engineer
 * You are fluent in writing analytical SQL, are able to write complex queries with no assistance, understand the difference between SQL that works and performant SQL
 * Fluent in Python
 * You have experience with some of the following platforms Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Airbyte, Looker/Mode/Sigma, Hightouch/Cencus
 * You are a clear, concise communicator that works well with others
 * You can explain complex data flows, datasets or queries to non-technical people in understandable ways
 * Bonus: experienced with building ML pipelines
 * You have a natural curiosity and investigative mindset
 * You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment and thrive on both autonomy and collaboration

## Description

Drata is looking for a Senior Data Engineer! This person will be a key member of the growing data team, supporting one of the fastest growing B2B SaaS startups to achieve unicorn status. At Drata, we're on a mission to help build trust across the internet! Data accuracy is an essential cornerstone of our mission., We are looking for a senior data engineer that can help us strategize and execute our data engineering vision. We're looking for someone who enjoys building data products at scale.

We are building out a first-class data department composed of Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. We ensure all teams at Drata can easily self-serve the data and report they need to drive their projects and make decisions. If you're excited to work on a fast-moving team using cutting-edge technologies to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data, we want to meet you.

What you'll do:

 * Automate first! One of our core company values is automation.
 * Help us build data products that will serve analytics needs, product and engineering services and ML models
 * Optimize query performance, data ingestion and processing time
 * Contribute to building the data modeling layer
 * Build strong data governance processes
 * Build solid data engineering training and documentation for all analysts so they can learn how to use, move and transform data with minimum data engineering assistance.
 * Interview, hire and train future data engineers
 * Administrate data orchestration through modern tools concepts such as ETL, ELT, Reverse ETL etc.


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