Staff Data Engineer

🕒 September 23

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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commonsku

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • B2B

commonsku is a connected workflow SaaS platform that streamlines operations for promotional-products distributors and suppliers. It provides client-facing sales tools (presentations, portals, shops), CRM, order and production management (including decorator matrix and product mockups), supplier integrations with live product data and ePOs, and finance and analytics dashboards to centralize, automate, and scale business processes.

📋 Description

• Architect and maintain a reliable, seamless, high-impact analytics layer across product and operational units • Guide key initiatives from inception through completion using robust software design principles • Transform raw transactional records into star schemas covering orders, distributors, suppliers, catalog offerings, and financial workflows • Identify and fix sluggish queries, unoptimized transformations, and testing blind spots • Oversee automated Fivetran syncs and adapt to schema modifications • Establish and safeguard standardized logic within dbt data marts • Build Snowflake and Metabase layers for self-serve analytics access • Conduct complex exploratory data deep dives • Mentor engineers and analysts through reviews and ongoing support • Partner with product leads and engineering managers to translate strategy into technical milestones • Use AI coding assistants including Cursor, CodeRabbit, and Claude with human verification • Contribute to distributor benchmarks and AI-powered query access for company-wide decision-making

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related role • Experience ideally within a SaaS or product-driven environment • Strong production experience with SQL, dbt, and a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake or comparable • Proficiency in Python for analytics tooling and automation • Deep understanding of dimensional modeling and relational databases • Experience with managed ingestion using Fivetran • Experience designing BI environments in Metabase for self-serve use • Proven track record of mentoring and developing engineers or analysts • Strong technical judgment and pragmatic business tradeoff skills • Customer empathy and dedication to continuous growth and feedback • Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively • Experience using Snowflake AI tooling or similar • Eligible to work in Canada, excluding Quebec

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first culture with in-person experiences • Company-wide closure between December 25th and January 1st • Health and dental benefits • $1,000 healthcare spending account • RRSP/TFSA contributions up to $3,000 a year, with no employee contribution required • Twice-yearly company-wide summits • Delightful team of smart people • Equal opportunity workplace • AI-assisted application support and human-reviewed hiring process