Senior Data Engineer

🕒 September 23

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Ground News

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

📱 Media

💰 Seed Round on 2020-12

Media

Ground News is a news comparison platform that provides users with access to a wide range of news sources. Through its features such as the Browser Extension and Daily Briefing, it allows users to see political bias ratings, coverage percentages from various perspectives (left, center, right), and market-disproportionate reporting on various stories. Ground News empowers readers to understand media bias, review the blind spots in current news stories, and access information from multiple viewpoints for a more balanced understanding of the news. The platform offers local, national, and international news coverage with tools to help readers critically engage with news content.

📋 Description

• Design and build scalable, conformed data models and analytical layers serving experimentation and company KPIs • Own warehouse data connectors end to end, including replicated backend tables, custom connectors, and third-party managed sources • Manage infrastructure as code and deployment workflows across AWS and GCP using Kubernetes and OpenTofu (Terraform) • Own data pipelines, monitor freshness, and respond urgently to failures • Participate as a senior voice in data architecture decisions, including table types, datastores, and schemas from backend to semantic layers • Partner with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders to translate business questions into reusable self-service data models • Champion engineering quality through testing, code reviews, observability, and operational practices • Ensure data model reliability across ingestion, data quality, accuracy, coverage gaps, and upstream/downstream failures

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms and analytical models • Deep expertise in SQL and Python • Broad experience with dimensional modelling: grain, table types, conformed dimensions, and load patterns • Hands-on experience with BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, and ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Google Datastream • Experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues or streams such as Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub • SRE-oriented experience with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization for data integrations • Experience shipping data and metrics safely, with validation habits and awareness of compute costs • Legally eligible to work in Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom to work remotely • Unparalleled learning experience personally and professionally • Growth opportunities for business and team members • Opportunity to play a key role in developing Ground News products • Collaborative, creative, and diverse-perspectives culture

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