Data Engineer III

The Data Engineer III is responsible for building and maintaining robust data pipelines and models for the R2Net organization, overseeing a broad scope of ETL infrastructure and databases. By deploying expertise across many diverse systems, APIs, and platforms, this role plays a key part in enabling accurate and timely access to data across the organization, with an emphasis on simplifying and centralizing a complex ecosystem – and thereby providing trustworthy, analytic-ready resources for the various business units.

This role, by interfacing with key stakeholders in Engineering, Analytics, Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Service, will work to build a data environment that is accurate, complete, timely, and dependable, and will serve as a trusted partner to key associates across the org. In achieving these goals, this role will extend beyond pipeline management – it will involve deep collaboration with business stakeholders, proactive engagement in data strategy, and a focus on driving measurable impact through data. This engineer is expected to bridge technical execution with business outcomes, owning long-term initiatives that drive top-line and bottom-line growth for R2Net as a whole.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain complex data pipelines, ensuring scalability and reliability using Airflow, dbt, Rivery, Python, and SQL, enabling robust ingestion and transformation of structured and semi-structured data.
• Serve as a strategic partner to business teams, working closely with stakeholders to translate high-level goals into data solutions that support forecasting, performance tracking, and optimization.
• Develop and maintain clean, well-documented data models in Snowflake and BigQuery that support analytics, reporting, and operational workflows and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Integrate data from a variety of internal and external sources, including Google Analytics and third-party APIs, to support full-funnel visibility across departments.
• Enable self-service analytics by ensuring data assets are discoverable and usable via tools such as Tableau, including thoughtful semantic layer design and performance tuning.
• Contribute to the development of robust monitoring and observability practices for data quality and pipeline health.
• Collaborate on architecture and design decisions, including cloud infrastructure and containerization using AWS. Pulumi and Docker.
• Maintain strong documentation and promote engineering standards that ensure transparency, maintainability, and reusability of data systems.

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related roles.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with expertise in efficient query writing, data structures, and software engineering principles.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and/or Big Query, including data modeling and performance optimization.
• Proficiency with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) and data integration tools like dbt.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, especially AWS, for data storage, compute, and infrastructure management, including services such as AWS Batch, ECR, Lambda functions, and related tools.
• Familiarity with data analytics and visualization tools, particularly Tableau, and ability to support data consumers in building actionable dashboards.
• Experience with marketing and product data sources, including Google Analytics and similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT design and data warehousing solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for data engineering.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Suite for documentation and collaboration.
• Robust experience with API design and integration.
• Familiarity with SCRUM development methodologies and tools like Jira

At R2Net - James Allen & Blue Nile, many of our roles offer a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, paid time off, retirement planning and opportunities for career advancement. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, employment type, work schedule or location:

• Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Flexible Spending Account | Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discount
• Parental Leave
• Life Insurance

At this time, R2Net will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Additional Information: R2NET INC. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. R2NET INC. will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Blue Nile’s Seattle or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Annual base pay: $147,000 - $172,000. Final pay rate shall be determined and is based on experience and qualifications

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. #LI-WK1