Senior Staff Engineer - Data Engineer

 8+ 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. Experience with dbt models and materialization Experience with incremental models  Experience building and maintaining macros using Jinja Experience with dbt tests and data quality frameworks Experience with snapshots Experience with seeds and sources  Experience with documentation and data lineage Experience using dbt packages Strong experience with at least one cloud data platform:  Snowflake Databricks Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift 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