Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer at Artsy

We are looking for a senior Data Engineer to join the Artsy team. You will help develop the analytics and machine learning data pipelines that support Artsy's business operations and product features. This can involve challenges in data warehousing, orchestration, and infrastructure. Data is core to Artsy's marketplace, and this role will be responsible for shaping the platform, practices, and workflows driving both product and business insights.

Data Platform is a workstream within Artsy's Platform engineering team that enables other product teams to develop data-driven products. The team manages all our ELT pipelines, ensuring acceptable reliability and data quality standards are met. You will report to the Engineer Manager, who leads the Core Platform team.

Our data platform relies on AWS for cloud infrastructure, including Redshift for warehousing, Airflow for orchestration on Kubernetes; DBT for data modeling; some use of Spark for data processing; and Python as the core language. We integrate with services like Segment and Looker and continuously evaluate new patterns, tools, and technologies. The Core Engineering Platform team is technically diverse, with team members working on infrastructure, security, and development tooling. We release continuously and test often with a focus on reliability, developer experience, and high-quality engineering enablement.

What You'll Do at Artsy:

• You'll architect systems for scale, with a focus on data quality and platform reliability.
• You'll work cross-functionally with data analysts, platform engineers, and product engineers.
• You'll influence the direction of our data platform roadmap, including our analytics pipelines and personalization features.
• You'll support the operations of data platform systems, including observability and requests to our team.
• You'll work with the data infrastructure to maintain and improve the data availability for the whole company.
• You'll help structure our data, so it's an invaluable asset in our dynamic business environment.

This Role Is a Fit For You If:

• You enjoy evolving infrastructure as part of a team, pushing the boundaries of Artsy's platform.
• Have experience working in a platform role, providing both knowledge and tooling to your non-platform engineer colleagues.

[Optional] It's a plus if you…

• If you have experience standardizing and scaling Machine Learning operations
• If you have experience with data security

This role is unlikely to be a good match if you….

• Don't like interacting outside the data platform team.
• Don't like to look for opportunities to optimize data platform systems.
• Think that the data platform scope is limited to data pipelines

What success looks like in your first 3-6 months:

• Full grasp of the data platform systems
• Can contribute effectively to the data platform roadmap
• Work together with other teams, like pairing with the data analysts

How We Will Evaluate Your Skills:

Our standard interview process looks like:

1. Talent Acquisition Interview
2. Hiring Manager Interview
3. Work Exercise/Design System interview
4. Team Interview with Close Collaborators (focused on the core skills for the role and our values)
5. Final Interview with Leadership

If you are selected to interview for the Sr Data Engineer position, we will share a detailed guide on what you can expect from the hiring process and how to prepare for each stage.

Artsy Values

Artsy has five core values that will inform your experience at Artsy.

For the Love of Art: We show relentless curiosity, empathy, and passion for collectors, artists, gallerists, and the art market. We take action to make the art world more fair and welcoming.

Own Our Outcomes: We are all individual owners of Artsy's shared success. We are resourceful and resilient, and to get the job done, we each take responsibility for our outcomes.

Lead with Openness: We trust in our teammates. We seek diverse perspectives, communicate authentically, and act with integrity. A more open art world starts with us.

Transform Together: Our mission asks us to challenge the status quo. We embrace feedback, learning, and change so that we can transform our industry, our company, and ourselves.

Impact Over Perfection: Using both art and science, we debate and decide swiftly and iterate on our plans as we learn. To make the biggest impact, we prioritize speed and clarity of action over perfection.

Artsy is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.