Senior Data Engineer

Respondology is looking for a hands-on and forward-thinking Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of data infrastructure, scalability, and engineering excellence — and who wants to have a direct impact on how we build, scale, and maintain our data systems.

You'll create the infrastructure and processes to collect and manage our data, ensuring it's accurate, accessible, and secure for use across the organization. From solving our data warehousing needs to improving product stability and enabling AI-driven features, you'll build the foundations that engineering, product, data science, and business analytics teams rely on every day.

Respondology is the AI-powered social comments company for moderating unwanted content, surfacing insights, and engaging at any scale. Fast to deploy. Easy to use. Trusted by hundreds of leading brands to optimize their organic and paid social performance.

This is a remote role open to candidates in the US and Canada. Travel to Boulder for team events required twice per year.

The ideal candidate

• Experienced IC who can bootstrap a data platform and warehousing strategy end-to-end.
• Strong expertise in database design, data modeling, and schema optimization for relational (Postgres), columnar (Redshift / Snowflake) and search databases (OpenSearch).
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL / ELT pipelines for data ingestion and transformation.
• Can design scalable data architectures that support both transactional workloads and analytical use cases.
• Familiarity with pipeline orchestration, modern data warehousing solutions (Snowflake, Redshift, or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Ability to translate business and product needs into robust data infrastructure and improvements.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset working with Engineering, Product, and BizOps teams.

A Day in the Life

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Base Salary : $155,000–$175,000 DOE plus bonus and equity

And if we haven't convinced you yet, here is why you'll want to be part of our team :

Come as you are : Your background, your beliefs, your pet projects, your playlist—none of those should hold you back from applying. If you’re great at what you do and want to be part of something that’s making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.