infrastructure
Posted Apr 24Senior Data Platform Engineer
at Truebill
San Francisco, Ca, Washington, D.c., New York City, Ny, Detroit, Mi, Phoenix, Az, Miami, Fl, Denver, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Make collaborative decisions about data tooling, pipeline design, and governance, and implement opinionated interfaces that facilitate easy and best-practice-aligned development for other teammates.
- Analyze patterns in how source data is generated, modeled, and consumed. Work with stakeholders to implement the best solution when new data sources are added.
- Document everything you build knowing that you're creating the foundation others will build upon.
- Automate aggressively and deliberately; anything from GitHub Actions to Slack Workflows to minimize repetitive tasks.
Requirements
- Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey. ABOUT THE TEAM 🤝
- We build the foundational platform that ingests, processes, and serves data—enabling our Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Software Engineering teams to build data products efficiently.
- While we have established tools and processes in place (dbt, BigQuery, Terraform), we're actively building the comprehensive standards, practices, and systems that will scale with Rocket Money as it grows.
- We have a strong preference for process-oriented systems thinkers who excel in balancing stakeholder requirements, technical debt, and organizational complexity—and who thrive in environments where they need to create structure from ambiguity.
- Your runbooks, architecture decision records, and system documentation will become the institutional knowledge of our data platform.
- experience working with data infrastructure, data engineering, or platform engineering within a fast-paced environment.
- You are highly proficient with SQL, Python, and cloud-based Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.
- Terraform), and comfortable working with bash/shell scripting.
- experience with modern data stacks including data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift), orchestration tools, managed ingestion services, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).
- experience making big changes to critical data infrastructure.
- Our stack: GCP (BigQuery, Datastream, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI, GCS), dbt, Fivetran, Postgres, Python, Terraform, Looker, Retool Analogous
- experience: AWS (Redshift, DMS, Lambda, SageMaker, S3) or Azure (Synapse, Data Factory, Functions), Snowflake, Airbyte/Stitch, infrastructure as code tools, BI platforms WE OFFER 💫
Experience
- You have 6+ years of
- You have 4+ years of production
- You have 2+ years of
Benefits
- You’ve successfully re-architected, migrated, or upgraded data tooling that has strict SLA’s, without significantly affecting downstream stakeholders. Bonus points if:
- You have led a data infrastructure migration or modernization project where you defined the vision, approach, and implementation.
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans Life Insurance
- Long/Short Term Disability Competitive Pay 401k Matching
- Tuition Reimbursement Unlimited PTO
- Additional information: Salary range of $160,000 - $200,000 + bonus + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Rocket Money, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
Additional details
- Rocket Money’s mission is to meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of millions of people.
- Data Platform Engineers at Rocket Money further our mission by building and maintaining the infrastructure that enables our company to understand our users and products through reliable, scalable data systems.
- We work closely with engineering teams to ensure data is captured correctly at the source, design resilient pipelines, and create self-service capabilities that empower stakeholders.
- The Data Platform team is in an exciting phase of growth and formalization .
- We're looking for engineers who can take ownership and evolve workflows into reliable, well-documented, production-grade systems.
- This is an opportunity to shape architectural decisions, establish team practices, and define how Rocket Money works with data for years to come.
- You'll need to be comfortable making principled decisions, taking ownership not just of code but of outcomes, and operating with significant autonomy as we build the platform together. ABOUT THE ROLE 🤹
- Be an end-to-end owner of our data platform infrastructure, ensuring its security, usability, and performance.
- Continuously improve failure rates for data sources by moving alerting “to the left”; i.e. catching and quarantining bugs/failures as close to the source as possible.
- Take ownership of existing tools and workflows that may be functional but lack formal structure, documentation, or reliability measures.