Senior Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Vancouver, Canada; hybrid or remote. Work anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days per year.

Base pay: CAD 140,000–170,000 per year, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global builds vertically focused AI automation for insurance agencies and brokerages, helping modernize insurance operations and client service.

What you will do

• Own the Databricks data lake, dbt models, medallion layers, incremental and backfill strategies, partitioning, freshness, and quality monitoring.
• Build CDC and streaming ingestion from HubSpot, Langfuse, Postgres, and DynamoDB with idempotency and deduplication.
• Own data services, schemas, migrations, versioned APIs, provenance, audit trails, testing, and observability.
• Build AI data infrastructure, including embedding pipelines, vector stores, retrieval knowledge bases, feature stores, and LLM observability.
• Develop cloud databases, improve data retrieval, optimize analytics dashboards, and maintain data management and security policies.
• Collaborate with software, AI/ML, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers in data best practices.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of professional data engineering experience.
• Experience owning databases, data pipelines, backends, and system integrations.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, data modeling, medallion architecture, star schema, or Snowflake schema.
• Experience designing multi-tenant systems with hard isolation requirements and handling PII or regulated data.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and pipeline tools such as dbt, Databricks Workflows, Airflow, Dagster, CDC tooling, or AWS Step Functions.
• Experience supporting AI products, data visualization, and data governance.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience communicating technical designs and product strategy to senior leadership.
• Experience building and hydrating vector databases such as Pinecone or AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct access to leadership, meaningful ownership, and a fast-moving environment.
• Employee stock options subject to a standard vesting schedule.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including a $500 Lifestyle Spending Account.
• Four weeks of paid vacation per year.
• Parental leave top-ups of six months for birthing parents and eight weeks for non-birthing parents, up to a $100,000 annual salary.
• Work anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days per year.