# Data Engineer

[Company name] · [City, Province] · [Remote / Hybrid, X days in office / On-site] · [Full-time, permanent]

## Pay

$[X] to $[Y] per year.

[If there is a bonus or commission tied to hours, output or results, add it here. Example: "Plus a bonus of up to [X]% of salary, based on [what it's based on]."]

## About this posting

- This posting is for an existing vacancy. [Or: "This posting is not for an existing vacancy." Pick one.]
- We [use / do not use] artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select applicants. [If you use it, you must say so. You don't have to name the tool.]
- If we interview you, we will tell you within 45 days of your last interview whether we have made a hiring decision.
- We offer accommodation for disabilities at every step of hiring. Tell [name, email] what you need and we will work it out with you.

## About us

[Two or three sentences. What the business does and why data matters to it. Give a sense of scale, for example "[X] million events a day."]

## What you'll do

- Build and run data pipelines that move data from source systems into clean tables people can query.
- Build and tune data models in [your warehouse, for example Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift].
- Add data quality checks and alerts so we catch problems before the people using the data do.
- Work with analytics and ML teams to give them data they can trust.
- Own scheduling, dependencies and recovery when a job fails.
- Keep data lineage and docs up to date.

## What you need

- About [3] years of running data pipelines in production, or the same skill from other work.
- Strong SQL. You can write hard queries and speed up slow ones.
- [Python or Scala] for data work.
- Hands-on work with [your orchestration tool, for example Airflow, Dagster or dbt].
- A good grasp of data modelling, for example star schemas.

## Nice to have

- Streaming data, for example [Kafka or Kinesis].
- Infrastructure as code, for example [Terraform].
- [One more tool you actually use].

## What we offer

- [Health, dental and vision coverage]
- [Vacation: X weeks a year]
- [Equity, if any, and how it vests]
- [On-call: how often, and how it's paid or given back as time off]
- [Learning budget: $X a year]

## How to apply

Send your resume to [email or link]. A short note about a pipeline you're proud of helps.

We read every application.

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1. Ontario, 25 or more employees: the pay line, the AI line and the vacancy line are required. Sources: ESA ss. 8.2, 8.4, 8.5 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/00e41) and O. Reg. 476/24 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/r24476).
2. Keep the gap between $X and $Y at $50,000 or less. Source: O. Reg. 476/24, s. 4.
3. Don't ask for Canadian experience in the ad or the application form. Source: ESA s. 8.3. The OHRC calls a strict Canadian experience rule discrimination on its face (https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-removing-canadian-experience-barrier).
4. Tell each person you interview whether you've made a hiring decision within 45 days of their last interview. Source: ESA s. 8.6 and O. Reg. 476/24, s. 5.
5. Keep every posted version, any linked pages and the application form for 3 years. Source: ESA s. 15(7.1) and the Ontario guide (https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/requirements-related-publicly-advertised-job).
6. Ontario employers must tell the public that accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities. Source: O. Reg. 191/11, s. 22 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/110191).
7. BC: post the expected pay or range. Don't ask about past pay, directly or through anyone else. Source: Pay Transparency Act, ss. 2 and 3 (https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/23018).
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