Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information analytics and online in the S&P 500 Index CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worldsreal estate empowering all people to discover properties insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offeringstoour continually refined transformed and perfectedour approach to our business creating a language that has become standard in our industry for our customers and even our continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive is how we deliver for our customersour employees and equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Role Description:

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a new team building our next generation of data warehousing pipelines and ecosystem in the finance tech organization. Initially this role will focus on building a data migration and transformation process for external systems for use in our enterprise contracting system. This will include receiving data from multiple data sources of varying format frequency and type. You will create applications to process it in a repeatable customizable and recurring state to simplify the conversion process of our financial data across systems and acquisitions both today and in the future. You will also help standardize our data environment across our billing systems to allow for greater visibility into patterns errors and optimizations to our business consisting of billions of dollars of payments a year.

This positionis inRichmond VA and hasawork schedule of Monday through Thursday in office and Friday work from home.

Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain scalable data pipelines and data platforms
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for large complex datasets
• Collaborate with engineering product DevOps and DBA teams to deliver production systems
• Contribute to technical design decisions and mentor other engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degreerequiredfrom an accredited not-for-profit in-person college/university
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5 years of data engineering experience including experience setting technical direction on projects and influencing design across a team
• Hands-on experience building batch and incremental ingestion pipelines from multiple heterogeneous external sources (REST/GraphQL APIs flat-file and SFTP feeds third-party data vendors and database replication/CDC)
• Demonstrated experience normalizing inconsistent third-party schemas into standardized enterprise data models including source-to-target mapping deduplication and entity resolution
• Advanced SQL and strong data modeling skills (dimensional/star schema normalized or Data Vault) plus proficiency in Python Scala Java or C#/.NET
• Production experience with a distributed processing engine and a cloud data warehouse or lakehouse platform (e.g. Databricks/Spark Snowflake BigQuery Redshift Synapse/Fabric) including pipeline orchestration tooling (e.g. Airflow Dagster Databricks Workflows Azure Data Factory)
• Experience implementing data quality validation and reconciliation controls for externally sourced data with version control and CI/CD in a major cloud environment (AWS Azure or GCP)
• Experience with agentic engineering with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code or similar) to accelerate software delivery

Preferred Qualifications:

• Production-scale expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake Unity Catalog Delta Live Tables / declarative pipelines Databricks SQL Workflows) or an equivalent lakehouse platform including open table formats (Delta Lake Apache Iceberg Apache Hudi)
• Experience with a modular transformation framework and tested version-controlled models (dbt SQLMesh or equivalent)
• Experience with managed ingestion and replication tooling (Fivetran Airbyte Qlik Replicate AWS DMS Debezium Kafka Connect) and streaming or near-real-time ingestion (Kafka Kinesis Spark Structured Streaming Flink)
• Data quality and observability frameworks (Great Expectations Soda dbt tests Monte Carlo) and data cataloging lineage and governance tooling (Unity Catalog AWS Glue Data Catalog Collibra Alation)
• Master data management entity resolution or record-linkage tooling including address and geospatial standardization
• AWS data services (S3 Glue EMR Lambda Step Functions Redshift) Terraform and backend data services in C# / .NET
• AI/ML and feature-engineering pipelines and ability to apply AI assist or agentic workflows for code generation review and root-cause analysis

Whatsin it for you

When you join CoStar Groupyoullexperience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life legal and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirementplanwith matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) with yoga studio Pelotons personal training group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Groups Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee tea hot chocolate fresh fruit and other healthy snacks

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors including but not limited to geographic location skills and competencies.

Base Compensation: $133000 - $172000 annually.

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing