Senior Data Platform Engineer (Data/Analytics)

Location: Remote with occasional availability to come into the Chicago office; U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $137,550–$173,000 per year, plus equity; the compensation section also lists a base pay range of $130,000–$173,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global builds restaurant technology including point-of-sale, payments, SaaS products, and AI-powered profit tools for independent restaurant operators.

What you will do

• Build and operate reliable CDC, batch, incremental, SaaS, and third-party API pipelines into Snowflake, orchestrated with Airflow or similar tools.
• Design and own dbt models and curated marts for merchants, orders, payments, revenue, product usage, finance, and product analytics.
• Unify data from legacy and next-generation POS platforms and other product backends into documented, consistent data products.
• Define data tests, monitoring, alerting, freshness and volume checks; respond to incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and reconcile financial data with source systems.
• Tune Snowflake and dbt performance, incremental strategies, materializations, clustering, warehouse sizing, and platform costs.
• Partner with analysts, finance, product, and engineering teams while improving SQL, modeling, testing, documentation, and mentorship practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related role.
• Expert SQL, including complex joins, window functions, incremental logic, and query performance tuning; strong Python for pipeline development, automation, and tooling.
• Deep hands-on experience with dbt, including models, tests, macros, incremental materializations, and documentation, plus Snowflake or a comparable cloud warehouse.
• Strong data modeling fundamentals, including dimensional modeling, grain, slowly changing dimensions, and models for many downstream consumers.
• Experience building and operating production pipelines with Airflow or similar orchestration, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call ownership.
• Experience implementing data quality checks and evaluating data correctness.
• Experience supporting product analytics and/or financial analytics, including event data, funnels, adoption, retention, revenue, payments, or reconciliation.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, POS, or SaaS businesses.
• CDC and streaming ingestion, such as Debezium, Kafka, or Streamkap, or modern ingestion frameworks such as dlt or Fivetran.
• Experience unifying data across platform migrations or multiple product backends.
• Snowflake administration, including RBAC, cost governance, and warehouse management.
• Data observability tools, CI/CD for dbt, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience enabling BI and semantic layers, or AI/agent access to warehouse data.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with occasional access to the Chicago office.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; RSUs; paid vacation; company holidays; sick time; and volunteer time off.
• Employee Resource Groups, a monthly cell phone and internet stipend, and tuition reimbursement of up to $2,000 per calendar year.
• Offers reflect candidate location and experience; the base compensation package includes a company stock plan.
• hirify.global is an equal employment opportunity employer and an E-Verify company.