Coalition
Staff Data Engineer
Any location, Canada +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- Any location, Canada
United States - Remote - Experience
- 9–12 years building and operating production data platforms.
About the job
Defines the architecture and technical direction of Coalition’s data platform, building trusted data infrastructure and products for analytics, insurance, cybersecurity, and AI/ML.
What you'll do
- Set platform architecture and standards for Snowflake, dbt, pipelines, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Build governed data models, reusable data products, and reliability practices for analytics and operational consumers.
- Develop foundations for AI/ML data capabilities, including feature engineering, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval-augmented applications.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in Snowflake and dbt, including optimization, testing, and deployment.
- Strong Python and analytical SQL skills, with data modeling experience.
- Experience building production data platforms and reliable batch and streaming pipelines.
- Experience establishing data products, governance, quality, and AI data infrastructure; production Looker and LookML experience.
Nice to have
- Experience modeling insurance domains.
- Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, Feast, DataHub, Atlan, OpenLineage, Elementary, dbt-expectations, or Evidently AI.
Pay
CAD 158,000/year–CAD 218,000/year base salary (Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario); CAD 142,600/year–CAD 200,000/year base salary (all other locations)
Tools
Snowflake, dbt, Python, analytical SQL, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Kafka
AI focus
Build data foundations for feature engineering, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval-augmented AI applications; experience with feature stores and AI data systems is required. AI-assisted development tools are a bonus.
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