Junior Data Engineer at Jobright.ai Encinitas, CA

Job Summary

Flock Freight is a Freight Tech company that uses patented technology to move freight more efficiently and sustainably. They are seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain scalable data transformation pipelines and infrastructure, enabling effective data access and analytical processes across the organization.

• Build and maintain scalable, maintainable, data transformation pipelines using Python and dbt to power the whole company's data science and analytics needs
• Stand up new low-latency data processing infrastructure to provide clean data to machine learning models
• Apply software engineering best practices to the development, testing, and deployment of data systems and tooling
• Introduce and improve workflow orchestration and automation processes
• Identify, synthesize, and prioritize stakeholder requirements and opportunities for improvements to existing systems
• Define and demonstrate patterns for writing, documenting, and distributing data transformation code
• Participate in incident response for production data systems and monitoring automation
• Help maintain secure data governance and access policies
• Write and maintain detailed but clear technical documentation

Required:

• 1 to 3 years of experience working as a data engineer or in dedicated data engineering coursework
• Experience working on complex data pipelines using SQL (preferably Snowflake) and Python
• Experience using popular data transformation frameworks like dbt or SQLMesh
• Understanding of data modeling strategies for both transactional and data warehousing workloads
• A solid conceptual grasp (and preferably hands‑on experience with) orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar
• Familiarity with cloud data architecture such as asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar), REST, S3, and data storage formats such as Avro, Parquet, and Iceberg
• Familiarity with common statistical, data visualization, and machine learning use cases, and preferably experience with popular cloud BI tools such as Mode, Sigma, or Looker
• Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills applied within an agile development environment
• Excellent communication, collaborative demeanor and ability to work in distributed, multi-functional teams with the ability to articulate a point of view.

Flock Freight is a freight technology company that provides freight brokerage and transportation services through shared truckload shipping. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Encinitas, California, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.