Senior Data Engineer

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering or a closely related role, with ownership of production data pipelines and models.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, experience with cloud data warehouses, and a solid understanding of dimensional modeling, ELT, API integrations and data quality. Hands-on experience with Snowflake and DBT is preferred.
• Practical experience building an AI agent, LLM application or automated workflow that uses real data. You can explain how it was evaluated, where it failed and what you learned. You use AI tools in your own development and can recognize when their output needs correction.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to learn unfamiliar processes quickly. You can connect technical choices to what users need and explain tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Experience helping others adopt new tools or practices through mentoring, training, documentation or direct support. You are comfortable working with users whose technical experience varies.
• An ownership mindset: you take work from discovery through implementation and ongoing improvement, collaborate openly, and care about whether people actually use what you build.

Nice to Have

• Experience with semantic layers or conversational analytics.
• Experience with Snowflake Cortex or similar agent tooling.
• Experience with GTM systems such as Salesforce, Gong or Zendesk.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or fintech is helpful.

What Success Looks Like

The solutions you build become part of how teams at Pontera work every day. You partner with business stakeholders to define the problem and what improvement would look like, then deliver tools that save time, improve decisions or increase the team’s capacity. You can explain what changed and show evidence of the value created.

Your data pipelines and semantic models provide a dependable foundation for analytics, agents and automated workflows. Business definitions are clear, outputs are tested, and teams can trust the answers they receive. New use cases build on reusable models and components, making each subsequent solution easier to deliver and maintain.

Business teams become more independent in how they use data. They can explore questions, understand the answers and take informed action within their permissions. Recurring questions and manual requests increasingly become opportunities for better self-service, giving the Data team more time for deeper problems and new capabilities.

The agents and workflows you deliver work reliably beyond the initial launch. They have appropriate evaluation, monitoring, documentation and access controls, with clear handling of failures and situations that require human review. You use feedback and observed usage to improve quality, usefulness and cost over time.

You raise the AI capabilities of the people around you. Through practical guidance, shared examples and collaboration, colleagues become more confident using AI, evaluating its output and applying it to their own work. Within the Data team, the approaches you develop help others build faster while maintaining sound engineering judgment.

You take ownership from discovery through ongoing improvement. You identify opportunities, make thoughtful tradeoffs, communicate progress and surface risks early. Your work is documented and understandable to others, and you actively share knowledge, support teammates and contribute to an environment where different perspectives improve the decisions we make.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Compensation: The compensation range for this role is $180,000 to $220,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
• Opportunity: Build data and AI solutions that directly improve how business teams work.
• Team Culture: A collegial, collaborative, fun work environment with frequent team events
• Equity: All new hires are eligible for equity grant participation
• Healthcare: Comprehensive & affordable insurance benefits with a variety of plan options
• Retirement: 401(k) with employer match & employer-sponsored access to a retirement advisor
• Family Benefits: Paid parental leave & reimbursement program for family planning services (such as fertility treatments, adoption, or surrogacy
• Professional Development: Sponsored learning & development program (to cover classes, certifications, and more!)
• Food Perks: Fully stocked kitchen & lunch reimbursement program
• Work Flexibility: A hybrid office work model (In-Office Tues/Weds/Thurs and WFH Mon/Fri) & generous PTO day

Pontera is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.