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About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can take loosely defined problems and drive them end-to-end—from framing the problem and aligning stakeholders to designing, building, and delivering durable data solutions. You’ll partner closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact.
Responsibilities
- Drive loosely defined problems end-to-end, from problem framing and stakeholder alignment to designing, building, and delivering durable data solutions.
- Partner closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact.
- Build tools and systems that make Gusto's data consistent, user-friendly, and helpful.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and data observability to ensure reliability and trust in data systems.
- Monitor, alert, and respond to incidents for production-grade data pipelines.
- Optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems.
- Leverage AI and automation in data engineering, building self-service tools, intelligent pipelines, and agents that automate repetitive tasks.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products.
- Proven experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and ETL workflows.
- 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.
- Functional experience working on cloud platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- Exemplar problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on clarity, empathy, and shared ownership.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- dbt
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- BigQuery
- Databricks
- CI/CD
- Automated testing
- Data observability
- AI
- Automation
Location
- Denver
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- New York
- Scottsdale
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000-$185,000/yr in Denver
- $170,000-$200,000/yr in Los Angeles
- $190,000-$220,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle, and New York
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
About the Company
- At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
- With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
- AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
- Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
- If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.