Data Engineer

Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by creating experiences people love at prices they can’t believe. We believe that investing in world‑class technology will facilitate a new class of insurance products, driving a massive positive impact on the hundreds of millions of drivers who carry auto insurance in the US. Root’s Engineering team is committed to building a flexible platform on which our product designers and quantitative scientists can quickly test ideas, deploy them into production, and iterate, with the ultimate objective of a delightful customer experience coupled with effective risk management.

We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team to drive financial data operations at Root, including commissions payments, incentive programs, and other critical backend financial systems. In this role, you will lead complex technical initiatives across engineers within your domain, ensuring the accuracy, scalability, and reliability of data pipelines that power financial processes. You will partner closely with Finance, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to define strategy, shape the technical roadmap, and deliver systems that support high‑stakes financial workflows.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will operate as a technical leader, making architectural decisions and delivering solutions with lasting impact over quarters and years.

At Root we’ve built an end‑to‑end financial data operations solution with multiple data collection tools, scoring pipelines, and analytics interfaces. Our analysts, data scientists and finance teams leverage this system to build payments and incentives programs. We’re looking to drastically increase our capabilities in this space. Your role is to achieve platform level tooling to allow faster onboarding of data sources, integrate data with partners, create faster experimentation cycles, and build the analytics and data science data infrastructure to enable more rapid decision loops.

Root is a technology company revolutionizing personal insurance with a pricing model based upon fairness and a modern customer experience. Using the power of telematics, Root offers customers auto insurance based on how they drive, not based solely on their demographics. With its technology‑forward products, Root is working to fundamentally change an industry for the better.

Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever Remote Location that works best for you across the US.

$168,600 - $215,000 (Eligible for Competitive Bonus & Equity Offering)

Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.

• Partner with Finance, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come.
• Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams.
• Coach and guide engineers on your team in planning experiments and projects that align with our strategic objectives.
• Contribute code each development cycle to advance the impact of the team.
• Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems.
• Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices.

• 8+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience with extensive expertise in data engineering
• Proficiency in
  
  Languages:
  
  Python, SQL
• Proficiency in Data & Infrastructure:
  Redshift, Spark, Apache Iceberg,…