At BuildOps, we’re building software purpose-built for commercial contractors. From service to projects, we help our customers run the workflows that keep buildings, businesses, and critical infrastructure operating.
The Analytics team owns the data platform behind that software. That includes the pipelines that pull product data into Snowflake, the dbt models customers and internal teams rely on, the embedded reporting inside our product, and the secure data shares our strategic customers query from their own environments.
The work is customer-facing and high-stakes: customers run their businesses on numbers that come through our platform. We have a wide mandate and are hiring a senior engineer who wants to own meaningful parts of it.
What You'll Do
Core platform & modeling work (about 70% of your time):
- Build and scale ingestion: Own CDC pipelines from our operational MySQL and Postgres sources into Snowflake using Airbyte and Streamkap, plus third-party sources across the business, including recovery when things go wrong
- Drive down latency: Help move us from batch toward near-real-time, using Snowflake dynamic tables, incremental dbt design, and orchestration redesign; customers increasingly expect data within minutes, and you'll help decide how far and how fast we can get there
- Model the business: Design and maintain layered dbt models (staging, intermediate, marts) across every product domain; getting correctness right, including history, grain, and reconciliation, matters as much as speed
- Grow customer data sharing: Evolve our multi-tenant Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and our open-format (Apache Iceberg) sharing for customers on other platforms, including tenant isolation, cross-region and cross-cloud fulfillment, and schema-change contracts
- Harden the platform: Build SLA, freshness, and completeness instrumentation; mature our deployment process so we stop pausing pipelines to ship; extend Terraform coverage of Snowflake, and keep warehouse cost and performance in check
- Raise the bar: Write design docs, review code, mentor engineers, and make architecture calls that hold up over time
On-call & partner support (about 30%):
- Take a full-sprint on-call rotation covering pipeline incidents, data share fulfillment, report breakages, and data accuracy escalations
- Unblock product squads, Finance, CS, RevOps, and Marketing on data delivery and internal analytics
- Handle Snowflake access, roles, and governance work alongside DevOps and IT
What We Look For
- 5+ years in data engineering, with production pipelines you've owned end to end
- Deep Snowflake experience: warehouse sizing and performance, RBAC, and ideally data sharing, dynamic tables, or Iceberg
- Strong dbt: incremental strategies, testing, layered modeling, and knowing when a full refresh will hurt you
- Hands-on CDC and ingestion experience with tools like Airbyte, Debezium, Streamkap, Fivetran, or Kafka, plus a working understanding of binlogs and replication
- Airflow, preferably at production scale (MWAA is a plus)
- Strong SQL and Python
- Solid AWS fundamentals
- Experience working in a multi-tenant SaaS data environment
- Calm, methodical incident response, and the judgment to fix problems at the right layer
- Clear written communication, both for design docs and for explaining a data issue to a non-technical stakeholder
Nice To Have
- Experience with event-sourced systems
- Embedded BI (Sigma or similar), including row-level security
- Terraform for Snowflake or other data infrastructure
- Data catalog and governance tooling such as Secoda, lineage, and data contracts
- Real-time analytics architecture, with an honest view of its cost tradeoffs
- Using AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your daily workflow
Our Stack
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Airflow (MWAA)
- Airbyte
- Streamkap
- Sigma
- Secoda
- AWS
- Terraform
- Apache Iceber
- GitHub
Compensation:
- $120,000 - $197,000 base salary range + annual bonus + stock op
- Generous equity grant, become an owner in our company!
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
- One-time work-from-home allowance
- Hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh with hybrid work schedules and lunch provided for in-office days
- Company events and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual
- Fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic work environment
- Opportunities for growth and career advancement
- Chance to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions
- The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers
We welcome applicants from across the U.S. where we are registered to do business and able to support employment. Currently, this excludes the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming. This list is based solely on operational and compliance considerations and is reviewed from time to time as our footprint grows.
About BuildOpsJoin BuildOps, the largest commercial trade platform in the country, as we transform the multi-billion dollar commercial contracting industry!
We’re not just talking incremental improvements—we’re talking a full-scale revolution, empowering the hardworking heroes who build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps our world running. See why contractors choose Buildops here.
This is your chance to be part of a rocketship. We’re fresh off a $1 billion valuation and a $127M Series C funding round (part of over $275M raised to date) led by industry-leading investors like Meritech Capital, BOND, and SE Ventures, backed by Schneider Electric (Reuters, TechCrunch, LA Business Journal) . Our latest investors join our team of industry heavyweights like Next47, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, former Salesforce President Gavin Patterson, and Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols. Their investment is fueling our aggressive growth and our commitment to equipping contractors with AI-driven tools to conquer chaos, boost efficiency, skyrocket profitability, and ultimately, deliver exceptional service.
At BuildOps, we’re changing the game and doing the best work of our careers. You’ll be a key player in a company that’s truly making a difference for the backbone of our economy. If you’re ready to tackle big challenges, work with a passionate team, and build something extraordinary, BuildOps is the place for you. 🚀
BuildOps is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- End-to-end ownership of production data pipelines
- Deep Snowflake experience, including warehouse sizing, performance, and RBAC
- Strong dbt experience with incremental strategies, testing, and layered modeling
- Hands-on CDC and ingestion experience with tools such as Airbyte, Debezium, Streamkap, Fivetran, or Kafka
- Understanding of database binlogs and replication
- Production-scale Airflow experience
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Solid AWS fundamentals
- Experience in a multi-tenant SaaS data environment
- Calm, methodical incident response and sound technical judgment
- Clear written communication for design documents and non-technical stakeholders
- MWAA experience
- Snowflake data sharing, dynamic tables, or Apache Iceberg experience
- Experience with event-sourced systems
- Embedded BI experience, including row-level security
- Terraform experience for Snowflake or other data infrastructure
- Experience with data catalogs, lineage, governance tooling, or data contracts
- Real-time analytics architecture experience
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code
BuildOps Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as starting on Day 1 and including medical, dental, and vision, with Anthem PPO plans viewed as better than basic. Feedback suggests healthcare and dental/vision were largely covered in practice.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is advertised as flexible or unlimited, with additional paid holidays, sick leave, and wellness days appearing across listings. Feedback suggests time off is regarded positively, though exact policy details vary and should be confirmed.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-related benefits such as fertility and childcare support are included in the package. Feedback suggests these offerings create a meaningful layer of family support.
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What We Do
BuildOps is the AI-native platform for commercial contractors. Built for the complexity of large-scale commercial work, it replaces disconnected tools and manual workflows with a single system that runs every job from quote to close. At the center of the platform is OpsAI, BuildOps' intelligence layer designed for real work in the trades. OpsAI helps dispatchers send the right tech in seconds, gives field crews the context they need before they step onsite, and helps offices bill clearly and stay on top of cash — all inside the workflows teams already use. Founded in 2018 by a U.S. Army veteran, BuildOps exists to give mission-critical trades technology as strong and reliable as they are — so they can operate with clarity when the work is on the line. Today, more than 1,000 leading companies across North America trust BuildOps to power their businesses, backed by Founders Fund, N47, Meritech Capital, and other top investors.
Why Work With Us
The idea for BuildOps was born out of the very real need felt by our founders from their own experience both in technology and in the field. We’re a widespread, but tight-knit, team of go-getters. We are passionate but humble. Unique, but fiercely collaborative. And at the end of the day, we truly love what we do.
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