Data Engineer III

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description : Our Opportunity

Chewy's AI & Data organization is seeking a Data Engineer III to lead the design and evolution of Chewy's enterprise data ecosystem. EDS powers the company's data and AI foundation—enabling machine learning, advanced analytics, and generative AI applications that improve customer experience and operational efficiency at scale. As a Data Engineer III, you'll be a system-level designer and mentor—architecting scalable data systems, establishing engineering standards, and guiding others in building for performance, cost, and reliability. You'll collaborate across AI, data science, and platform engineering to deliver trusted, intelligent data products that serve as the backbone for Chewy's next generation of data and AI capabilities. What You'll Do

• Architect and deliver large-scale, cross-domain data solutions in Snowflake, dbt Cloud, Kafka, and AWS.
• Design systems for real-time streaming, AI feature pipelines, and event-driven architectures.
• Establish data engineering standards for modeling, testing, observability, and cost optimization.
• Lead modernization and automation initiatives, including AI-assisted data validation, metadata enrichment, and auto-documentation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and advocate for practical adoption that improves velocity, reliability, or insight generation.
• Mentor engineers across levels through code reviews, design sessions, and technical coaching.
• Collaborate with architects and data science teams to align data infrastructure with ML, analytics, and AI requirements.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning and experimentation with AI in engineering workflows.
• Set parameters for quality control and perform error analysis to improve models; lead code reviews and guide secure coding practices.

What You'll Need

Why You'll Love This Role

The base salary range for this role is $118,500 - $207,000.

The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical / Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact .

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