Associate Staff Engineer - Data Engineer

4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or related fields. 3+ years of hands-on experience with dbt in production environments. Strong expertise in SQL and complex data transformation development. Strong understanding of dbt Core and/or dbt Cloud. dbt models and materializations  Incremental models Macros and Jinja dbt testing and data quality Snapshots, seeds, and sources  Documentation and data lineage dbt packages Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift) AI skills (required for all roles) Daily, fluent use of  Claude Code  and/or  GitHub Copilot  for implementation, refactoring, test generation, and code review Ability to establish team standards for AI-assisted development: effective prompting, trust-vs-verify discipline on generated code, security/IP guardrails, and reviewing AI-authored changes Working understanding of LLM fundamentals: context windows, tokens, model selection, and prompt/context engineering Experience integrating AI into developer workflows and agentic/automation tooling (MCP servers, AI-driven CI steps, codegen and doc-generation pipelines) Able to evaluate AI tooling pragmatically: measuring real productivity and quality impact, not hype