Senior Data Engineer

At Gusto our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. The Data Engineering team builds tools and systems that make Gusto's data consistent user-friendly and helpful. This helps our teams make decisions using data and provide intelligent customized experiences to our customers.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer who’s passionate about building reliable scalable and high-quality data systems. You’ll partner closely with analytics product and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python

• 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

Compensation Details

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $155000-$185000/yr in Denver $170000-$200000/yr in Los Angeles and $190000-$220000/yr for San Francisco Seattle and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.