This is a remote temporary contract position, lasting 3 or more months, with hourly pay ranging from $60/hourly. This range is based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, location, training, and education. This process ensures a fair and competitive salary that aligns with both the company and the candidate’s qualifications.
We're looking for a contract data engineer to help scale our data platform. This is a hands-on role with a focus on building and extending infrastructure that establishes a single source of truth and serves the organization with the tools to make faster, more informed decisions.
Responsibilities include:
- Expand silver and gold table coverage by converting raw data into business-ready tables, incorporating business logic from analytics stakeholders.
- Maintain and debug pipelines in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory
- Validate incremental load logic
- Investigate data issues
- Have 3-5 years of experience in analytics or ideally data engineering
- Strong SQL skills -- multi-CTE queries, and comfortable debugging code a team member wrote
- Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform (Fabric, Databricks, or similar), and Python/PySpark as a secondary skill, enough to read and modify existing notebooks
- Have worked within established systems, follow Spark SQL conventions, and communicate blockers clearly
- Have experience with Microsoft Fabric
- Be familiar with Delta Lake and medallion architecture
- Have experience with financial transaction data (SAP, NetSuite)
- Azure CLI or REST API experience for platform-level queries
- Have exposure to agentic AI workflows or AI-assisted development for debugging
As Newsweek’s #2 Most Loved Workplace in 2024 and a recognized leader in innovation by Fast Company (2024 Most Innovative Companies, 2023 Best Workplaces for Innovators), we use a mission-driven, data-centered approach to drive success for our authors and their books. We’re a thriving entrepreneurial company that creates books that transcend categories and defy odds, and we’ve been honored with hundreds of national bestsellers and awards. We are passionate book lovers dedicated to connecting books to readers in innovative ways. Story by story, book by book, we have changed more than 300 million lives. Join us as we change 300 million more!
Ready to Apply:
Please submit your resume, salary requirements, and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and interest in this role. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Sourcebooks values the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in analytics or data engineering
- Strong SQL skills, including multi-CTE queries
- Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform (Fabric, Databricks)
- Familiar with Delta Lake and medallion architecture
- Experience with financial transaction data (SAP, NetSuite)
- Azure CLI or REST API experience
- Experience with agentic AI workflows or AI-assisted development
Sourcebooks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sourcebooks and has not been reviewed or approved by Sourcebooks.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick days, and a sabbatical program are highlighted, with additional closure between Christmas and New Year’s. These elements collectively indicate a wide range of time‑off options.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous parental leave includes six weeks paid for both parents that can be combined with FMLA, alongside family medical leave. This reflects structured support for caregiving needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are provided along with life insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, FSAs, and mental‑health benefits. The package spans core health protections and ancillary supports.
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What We Do
“Sourcebooks, a legitimate contender for the title of ‘most innovative company in book publishing.’”—Mike Shatzkin, Idealog Innovators. Always looking for ways to bring new experiences to our readers, data is the backbone that gives direction to our creativity and informs our innovative spirit. Put Me In The Story, now the #1 personalized book platform in the U.S., is one of three e-commerce businesses we operate. We are committed to innovative publishing and to exploring new publishing platforms and models. Owners and Entrepreneurs. We take pride in being pioneers. Each of us is a leader invested in creating breakthrough for ourselves, our company, and readers everywhere. Starting with just one book in 1987, we now publish more than 300 new titles each year. With millions of books sold and more than 80 New York Times and USA Today bestsellers—and more—Sourcebooks publishes authors, not books. Constantly Learning. Not content to rely on yesterday’s knowledge, we know tomorrow’s opportunities can be discovered only with a passionate desire to explore new ideas. We Create Amazing. Every book and product we create and every life we touch is an opportunity to deliver the unexpected and the extraordinary. Our award-winning books earn accolades from Parenting Media Awards, YALSA Lists, Texas Bluebonnet, state awards, the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Award, and more. Book Business Magazine named Sourcebooks 2013 Publishing Innovator of the Year. From children’s, young adult, fiction, and memoir to personalized books, inspirational gifts, reference, poetry, and beyond, we believe books change lives. It is the heart of all that we do. We are excited to work with passionate authors, booksellers, librarians, designers, media, brand partners, and others to create a vibrant future for books. FIND US ONLINE www.sourcebooks.com www.putmeinthestory.com www.simpletruths.com www.123magic.com
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