Data Engineer
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Job Summary
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014 Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable.
Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the team/role
Were seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This team plays a crucial role in our mission by developing and maintaining scalable data platforms for fair and safe hiring decisions.
As a Data Engineer on the Data Platform team youll work on Checkrs centralized data platform critical for the companys vision. The centralized data platform is the heart of all key customer-facing products. You will work on high-impact projects that directly contribute to the next generation products. core product.
What youll do:
- Build maintain and optimize critical data pipelines that serve as the foundation for Checkrs data platform and products
- Build tools that help streamline the management and operation of our data ecosystem
- Architect systems for scale and security to keep up with a huge influx of data as Checkr continues to grow
- Architect systems that empower repeatable and scalable machine learning workflows
- Identify innovative applications of data that can enable new products or insights and enable other teams at Checkr to maximize their own impact
What you bring:
- 2 years of industry-related experience in a backend or data engineering role and a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Programming expertise in Python or SQL. Must have proficiency in one and at least experience in the other.
- Experience developing and maintaining production data services
- Experience with data modeling security and governance
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tools (e.g. gitlab and kubernetes)
- Experience and passion for mentoring other data engineers
Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkrs core values is Transparency. To live by that value weve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy see our website.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago Chile)
$39.100.000 - $46.000.000 CLP
At Checkr we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. Starting January 2026 hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per -office perks are provided such as lunch four times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local state and/or federal laws including the San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance.
*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g. or ).
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
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