At Edmunds, we make the car buying experience easier. By combining expert vehicle reviews and real-time consumer and automotive market insights with a suite of intuitive shopping tools, we empower millions of people to buy, sell, and price cars with total confidence. While we are an established leader in automotive tech, our company thrives on innovation and agility, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a competitive industry to keep our customers and our culture at the forefront.
What You’re Applying For:
The Data Platform team manages, supports, and enhances the system that powers Edmunds’ business intelligence. Our user base consists of analysts, engineers, business owners, sales, and executives. Analysts and engineers use the Data Platform to build production pipelines that ingest and curate Edmunds core data. Business users interact with AI tools, reports, dashboards, and other query engines to glean insights from said data. The Data Platform team is seeking a great engineer to help us grow, maintain and support this system that almost every Edmunds employee utilizes day to day.
What You’ll Do:
- Administer and support our Databricks platform and the underlying AWS infrastructure.
- Support and collaborate with various cross-functional customers such as:
- Business & Executives
- Engineering teams & Data Science
- Analytics
- Security & Infrastructure
- Explore, POC, and propose adoption of new features and technologies for the platform.
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines for operational data that help us understand the health of the many different facets of the Data Platform.
- Build, enhance, and maintain IaC artifacts for admin tooling (CDK, Terraform).
- Ensure teams can effectively use the Data Platform to build internal and external facing AI solutions.
- Build, enhance, and maintain dashboards, alerts, and reports that allow us to act on operational, cost, and security signals.
What You Need:
- 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering or similar role.
- Proficiency in Spark (Python or Scala).
- Fluency in Python and SQL.
- Extensive experience both using and administering Databricks.
- Familiarity with IaC concepts and hands on experience with Terraform and/or CDK.
- Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills in a hybrid environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
The compensation range for this position is $125,000 - $159,000 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.
Edmunds Perks:
- Flexible time off
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
- 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
- Stock purchase program
- CarMax vehicle discount
- Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
- HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
- 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
- FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
- Well-being sessions
- Employee Recognition Program
- On-going career development opportunities
- Pet insurance
- Sabbatical leave
- Education Reimbursement
- Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses
Working @ Edmunds.com:
Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine, Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal, Newsweek, Computerworld, Built in LA, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine, and Architectural Record. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology, for Diversity and Asian Americans, and as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace for LGBTQ+ employees. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you!
Edmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering or a similar role
- Proficiency in Apache Spark using Python or Scala
- Fluency in Python and SQL
- Extensive experience using and administering Databricks
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the Team is Saying
Edmunds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match at 100% up to 6% of salary with immediate vesting is prominently offered, signaling strong long‑term financial support. This structure is consistently highlighted as a core element of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO/HMO options with Edmunds paying roughly 70–100% of medical premiums, along with dental, vision, and employer‑paid life/disability, indicate robust coverage. HSA/FSA options and mental‑health resources (EAP, Headspace) further reinforce overall health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of up to four months for primary caregivers and access to Kindbody fertility benefits underscore meaningful family support. Dependent‑care FSA availability adds practical help for caregiving costs.
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What We Do
At Edmunds, we make the car buying experience easier. By combining expert vehicle reviews and real-time consumer and automotive market insights with a suite of intuitive shopping tools, we empower millions of people to buy, sell, and price cars with total confidence. While we are an established leader in automotive tech, our company thrives on innovation and agility, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a competitive industry to keep our customers and our culture at the forefront.
Why Work With Us
At Edmunds, we wrote the book on empowered car buying. Today, we're driving innovation to make the process easier for shoppers and dealers alike. We do it with data, but we're powered by people and their passion to evolve the car-shopping experience. So we trust our talent to shape our future and inspire them to shape their own.
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