Junior Data Engineer at Jobright.ai Encinitas, CA

Job Summary Flock Freight is a FreightTech company that uses patented technology to move freight more efficiently and sustainably. They are seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain scalable data transformation pipelines and infrastructure, enabling effective data access and analytical processes across the organization. Responsibilities Build and maintain scalable, maintainable, data transformation pipelines using Python and dbt to power the whole company's data science and analytics needs Stand up new low-latency data processing infrastructure to provide clean data to machine learning models Apply software engineering best practices to the development, testing, and deployment of data systems and tooling Introduce and improve workflow orchestration and automation processes Identify, synthesize, and prioritize stakeholder requirements and opportunities for improvements to existing systems Define and demonstrate patterns for writing, documenting, and distributing data transformation code Participate in incident response for production data systems and monitoring automation Help maintain secure data governance and access policies Write and maintain detailed but clear technical documentation Qualifications Required: 1 to 3 years of experience working as a data engineer or in dedicated data engineering coursework Experience working on complex data pipelines using SQL (preferably Snowflake) and Python Experience using popular data transformation frameworks like dbt or SQLMesh Understanding of data modeling strategies for both transactional and data warehousing workloads A solid conceptual grasp (and preferably hands‑on experience with) orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar Familiarity with cloud data architecture such as asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar), REST, S3, and data storage formats such as Avro, Parquet, and Iceberg Familiarity with common statistical, data visualization, and machine learning use cases, and preferably experience with popular cloud BI tools such as Mode, Sigma, or Looker Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills applied within an agile development environment Excellent communication, collaborative demeanor and ability to work in distributed, multi-functional teams with the ability to articulate a point of view. Company Flock Freight is a freight technology company that provides freight brokerage and transportation services through shared truckload shipping. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Encinitas, California, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. #J-18808-Ljbffr Itlearn360