Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Data Engineering
Department: Software Engineering
Job Level: L5
FLSA: Exempt
Job Summary:
Bear Robotics is a cuttingedge robotics company focused on developing innovative automation solutions for various industries. Our products including robot devices cloud services and public APIs are designed to help businesses operate more efficiently and effectively.
We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer Data Engineering to take ownership of our data platform leading the design development and optimization of data pipelines analytics systems and governance processes. This role includes leading a small team as a tech lead contributing technically to highimpact projects and fostering collaboration across teams.
Key Duties/Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Architect develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support complex analytics needs.
- Oversee and optimize GCP BigQuery databases ensuring performance scalability and costefficiency.
- Drive automation and efficiency using tools like Terraform for infrastructure management.
- Implement robust data governance practices to ensure data quality accuracy and security.
Data Visualization and Reporting:
- Administer and enhance enterprise visualization tools (e.g. Looker) creating dashboards and guiding internal teams on selfservice analytics.
- Translate business needs into actionable analytics solutions to support decisionmaking across the organization.
Collaboration and CrossFunctional Impact:
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to design optimized data ingestion and processing workflows.
- Act as a key contributor in aligning data engineering solutions with business objectives and organizational strategy.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Provide technical mentorship fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
- Lead the Data Analytics team ensuring alignment on priorities and deliverables.
- Help conduct performance evaluations offer feedback and collaborate with team managers on career development plans for team members.
- Support recruitment efforts and help scale the team as needed.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on data engineering topics influencing longterm technical direction and priorities.
Required Skills/Abilities/Qualifications:
- Proven track record of architecting and optimizing enterpriselevel data platforms using GCP and BigQuery or equivalent.
- Handson experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Strong proficiency with enterprise visualization tools (e.g. Looker Tableau Superset) and experience creating impactful dashboards.
- Advanced SQL expertise and a strong understanding of database management and optimization principles.
Preferred Skills/Abilities/Qualifications:
- Programming experience in Python C or Go.
- Experience leading engineering teams or crossfunctional technical projects.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for nontechnical audiences.
- Experience driving data engineering best practices in a fastpaced environment.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or a related field.
- 5 years of professional experience in data engineering including managing data pipelines databases and analytics platforms.
- Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership role either formally or informally guiding junior engineers.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Prolonged periods of sitting/standing at a desk and working on a computer. The employee routinely is required to sit; stand walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Ability to lift 20 lbs.
The pay range is $156K$178K. Pay is dependent on the applicants relevant experience
Bear Robotics Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color ancestry national origin religion or religious creed mental or physical disability medical condition genetic information sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age marital status military or veteran status citizenship or other characteristics protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.
Required Experience:
Senior IC