The Opportunity
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Data Platform team. This role is a hybrid of data engineering and business intelligence, ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges while also building intuitive and actionable reporting solutions.
- You’ll play a key role in designing and scaling the infrastructure and pipelines that power analytics, dashboards, machine learning, and decision-making across Sonatype. You’ll also be responsible for delivering clear, compelling, and insightful business intelligence through tools like Looker Studio and advanced SQL queries.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Architect and optimize data models and storage solutions for analytics and operational use.
- Create and manage business intelligence reports and dashboards using tools like Looker Studio, Power BI, or similar.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to ensure datasets are reliable, meaningful, and actionable.
- Own and evolve parts of our data platform (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark, Redshift, or Snowflake).
- Write complex, high-performance SQL queries to support reporting and analytics needs.
- Implement observability, alerting, and data quality monitoring for critical pipelines.
- Drive best practices in data engineering and business intelligence, including documentation, testing, and CI/CD.
- Contribute to the evolution of our next-generation data lakehouse and BI architecture.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a hybrid data/reporting role.
- Strong programming skills in Java/Scala (Java Preferred).
- Proficiency with data tools such as Databricks, data modelling techniques (e.g., star schema, dimensional modelling), and data warehousing solutions like Snowflake or Redshift.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and orchestration tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Airflow).
- Proficient in SQL with experience in writing and optimizing complex queries for BI and analytics.
- Experience with BI tools such as Looker Studio, Power BI, or Tableau.
- Experience in building and maintaining robust ETL/ELT pipelines in production.
- Understanding of data quality, observability, and governance best practices.
Bonus Points
- Experience with dbt, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with real-time data processing or streaming architectures.
- Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and security best practices in analytics and reporting.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Data with purpose: Work on problems that directly impact how the world builds secure software.
- Full-spectrum impact: Use both engineering and analytical skills to shape product, strategy, and operations.
- Modern tooling: Leverage the best of open-source and cloud-native technologies.
- Collaborative culture: Join a passionate team that values learning, autonomy, and real-world impact.
Top Skills
What We Do
The Sonatype journey started almost 15 years ago, just as the concept of “open source” software development was gaining steam. From our humble beginning as core contributors to Apache Maven, to supporting the world’s largest repository of open source components (Central), to distributing the world's most popular repository manager (Nexus), we’ve played a meaningful role in helping the world embrace the power of open innovation.
We empower developers and security professionals with intelligent tools to innovate more securely at scale. Our platform addresses every element of an organization’s entire software development life cycle, including third-party open source code, first-party source code, and containerized code. Sonatype identifies critical security vulnerabilities and code quality issues and reports results directly to developers when they can most effectively fix them. This helps organizations develop consistently high-quality, secure software which fully meets their business needs and those of their end-customers and partners. More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100, and 15 million software developers rely on our tools and guidance to help them deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.
Why Work With Us
We're on a mission to change how the world innovates by making software development easier. Already used by 15 million developers, we have lofty goals for our technology to be in the hands of every engineering team. And, we need you to do that. Join us!
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