Data Engineer III, Lab

Our Mission

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Hiring Lab Data Engineers build and maintain the data pipelines, infrastructure, and production systems that transform Indeed’s proprietary data into reliable research-grade datasets and public data products used to monitor labor market conditions around the world. The Data Engineer role collaborates closely with data scientists, economists, editors, and product managers across various functions to ensure that Indeed’s proprietary data can be processed, validated, and delivered as the metrics, visualizations, and analyses that are published externally.

• Designing and implementing reliable, scalable, and efficient data pipelines (ETLs) to integrate data from a variety of sources into Indeed’s data lake
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing data model changes that align with warehouse standards and support evolving business needs
• Improving the performance, reliability, and maintainability of data pipelines and data infrastructure
• Providing documentation, technical guidance, training, and consulting for data warehouse users

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree, and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or a PhD without experience
• Extensive experience working with relational, No
  
  SQL, and SQL databases
• Expertise in workflow orchestration and pipeline tools such as Airflow
• Experience designing scalable data models and optimizing large-scale data processing workflows
• Experience improving data quality, reliability, and performance through automation and engineering best practices

Tier 1 - United States of America 119, USD per year

Tier 2 - United States of America 133, USD per year

Tier 3 - United States of America 146, USD per year

Tier 4 - United States of America - N/A

Tier 5 - United States of America 166, USD per year

The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site (), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.

We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave.

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