Senior Data Engineer

At Ironwood Digital, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Ironwood Digital has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Ironwood Digital without it.
As a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our engineering team and business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future.
Visit our Ironwood Digital Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on!
What you’ll do as a Senior Data Engineer at Ironwood Digital:
– Design and deploy data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions
– Design and implement complex data orchestration models, modeling metadata, scaling reporting tools for data science and ML products users
– Be the company’s expert on data administration, data management and scalable data systems
– Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses
– Work with the Product and Enterprise Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise
– Help maintain CDC pipelines to power customer reporting
– Help develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide
How to be successful in this role:
– Have at least four years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field.
– Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster).
– Have good working knowledge of AWS data infra systems and Terraform.
– Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Data Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries
– Deep knowledge of crafting dimensional and fact models in modern data fashion
– Have a passion for enabling the developer experience of data, and being obsessed with giving data super powers across the company.
– Desire to lead the industry in security, anonymization, and compliance management when it comes to data warehousing
– Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
What you can expect as a Ironwood Digital’n:
– Industry-competitive salary and equity
– Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
– 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
– Health & wellness stipend
– Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
– Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
– Family planning benefits
– Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
– Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
– 11 company-paid holidays
– Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
– Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.
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At Ironwood Digital, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.
About Ironwood Digital
We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Ironwood Digital was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.
Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Ironwood Digital to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.
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