Grammarly
Data Engineer, Foundations
$157K–$245K
Hub - San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- Hub - San Francisco
Hub - Seattle - Experience
- 3+ years running live production environments, including high-load or data-intensive workflows.
About the job
Build and operate foundational data pipelines, datasets, and tooling that support analytics and product development across Superhuman.
What you'll do
- Architect and own scalable data pipelines and data lakes that process high volumes of events into reliable datasets.
- Improve data availability, security, quality, freshness, and reliability through monitoring, checks, and alerting.
- Develop ETL frameworks and reusable datasets, partnering with product, engineering, ML, and data science teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience running live production environments, including high-load or data-intensive workflows.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with deep hands-on experience in Spark and a modern lakehouse or cloud data warehouse.
- Knowledge of ETL/ELT design patterns, orchestration, data quality frameworks, and CI/CD for data with Git-based deployments.
- Skills in data modeling and data warehouse design, with a strong focus on data quality and observability.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-throughput real-time streaming systems such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming.
- Experience with distributed systems, lakehouse technologies, infrastructure as code, or building self-serve data products.
Pay
$157K – $245K USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Databricks, SQL, Python, Delta Lake, dbt, Snowflake, Airflow
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