Staff Engineer Data, Pipeline Team

Description

Location: _Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

_About Paylocity

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture. While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

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Position Overview

The Staff Data Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing scalable and resilient data systems. This role involves driving best practices, establishing architectural patterns, and ensuring the efficiency of data infrastructure.

Join our Pipeline Team as a Staff Data Engineer - a role designed for a software engineer who thrives at the intersection of high-scale data and distributed systems. You won’t just be writing ETL; you will be engineering the high-performance delivery systems that power our customer-facing data products and serve as the governed source for our future Agentic AI initiatives.

We are looking for a candidate who treats data as a product and infrastructure as code, applying rigorous software engineering principles (CI/CD, modular design, and automated testing) to solve complex puzzles in Snowflake optimization and native data-tier security.

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Design and implement scalable data platforms for enterprise applications.
• Establish best practices in data governance, security, and reliability.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging data technologies.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the data engineering team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision-making.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering with a proven track record of delivering complex projects/initiatives.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake and DBT.
• Proficient in SQL, advanced in Python.
• Experience with continuous delivery practices in Data Engineering.
• Good understanding of Airflow and one of the main cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• In-depth understanding of Data Engineering concepts (slowly changing dimension, incremental ELT, blue-green deployment).

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.
• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously.

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact Leave Benefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

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