Senior Data Engineer

About Auror

At Auror, we’re empowering the retail industry to tackle theft and Organised Retail Crime, a $150 Billion problem globally. It’s high volume crime that’s increasingly organised in nature and is putting people, retailers, and communities at risk every day.

Founded in New Zealand 11 years ago, we’re working with some of the best and largest retailers in the world across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Auror is connecting people and intelligence to reduce crime. We’re using technology for good. 

In partnership with our leading retail partners, we need people with the passion, determination, and innovation required to overcome one of the world's largest problems. If you’re looking to make a difference with and for the people dedicated to stopping crime, for good, then we want you on our team.

The Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer who is eager to work with a modern data platform as part of our data engineering team. The team is part of the wider Data and AI team, which are based all over the world. However, our core team is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and this role is based in our Auckland HQ.

Our data engineers typically work on data pipelines and transformations - moving data from core data stores to our data warehouse, and transforming it into concise, clean, and useful views. We have many sources of data, some examples are: a relational (Azure SQL) database of retail crime reports, high frequency detections of vehicles from automated license plate recognition (LPR) cameras (stored in CosmosDB), and high frequency click-events from users interacting with our platform (stored in Blob Store). Our team uses tools such as DBT, Airflow, Azure Functions, Fivetran and Azure Data Factory to move data around in our platform, typically landing it in our data warehouse (Snowflake) before it is consumed by our platform and customers. We also use tools such as Python and Snowpark to transform our data.

Your role would be diverse, gaining experience across our entire data platform. Initially your time would be spent getting familiar with our core data systems, before moving on to building out new data pipelines and transformations. This role is focused on both the engineering side of data engineering and the people side. We expect you to be spending most of your time building scalable pipelines and working on our data infrastructure, as well as communicating and collaborating with various teams across Auror. As a senior data engineer we’d expect you to be able to teach our more junior engineers on best practices in order to help them improve their craft.

What you will work on:

• Distributing scalable data pipelines using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD processes.
• Working collaboratively with the wider Auror team to help generate robust data models that can be used in a variety of applications.
• Continuously improving our core systems with a focus on data quality and observability.
• Investigating new and exciting tools that may help to improve our data processes
• Your time would be split 50/50 working collaboratively within the Data Team and working as part of our product streams. The product streams include a product manager, software engineers, QA and design.

This role reports to Nickolas Morton, Lead Data Engineer

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I joined Auror because I wanted to work on something that mattered. I currently sit within the data team and mostly work with our data warehouse and its use within the company. At university I studied complex network theory, which then transitioned into data science. I quickly understood that in order to provide quality, production ready insights the data platform itself has to be robust. This led me into data engineering, where I have found my passion. I enjoy working with people who care about what they do, and are always keen to experiment and improve.

Requirements

About you

What you need to know:

• Experience working with Microsoft Azure or another cloud provider in a production environment.
• Understanding of Git and CI/CD best practices.
• Experience with writing infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Strong skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience creating distributed pipelines for shifting data at scale.

Nice to have:

• Experience or projects using DBT and some database (such as Azure SQL, Postgres or Snowflake).
• Experience writing IaC using Pulumi.
• Experience with Snowflake.
• Experience with a graph database, such as Neo4j.
• Experience with data patterns, such as: data lakes, data mesh, medallion architecture, etc.
• Familiarity with an agile workflows.

We are looking for people who demonstrate a strong alignment to our Guiding Principles (you can find these on our Careers page).

Auror is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process to all candidates and we are actively working to improve diversity within the tech industry. We celebrate diversity and inclusiveness at Auror, regardless of (but not limited to) race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, religion, ethnicity, national origin, physical disability, veteran status, or age.

If you need adjustments to any part of our recruitment process because of accessibility reasons, please do not hesitate to let us know during the application process. We will work with you to identify adjustments that will allow you to perform at your best.

Benefits

• Competitive salary Range: Depending on level of experience of $115,000-155,000NZD (IC3)

• Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
• Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
• Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
• Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
• NiB Health Care Plan: Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan with nib. 
• Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
• Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
• Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.

Next steps:

If you’re excited about our mission and you have the experience and a passion for this role, please hit “Apply”.

If you’re not sure that you tick all the boxes but feel you’re close to what we’re looking for, please apply anyway! We’re proud that Auror is a place where everyone can learn and grow so we’d love to hear from you.

You'll be asked to submit a cover letter as part of your application. While this is optional we do encourage it, as we find cover letters can tell a story that resumes alone often cannot. Our hiring team love to understand what attracted you to this role and why you are excited about the opportunity to join Auror.

Once you apply, you’ll hear from us to acknowledge your application. If you have questions about any of the above, or if you have any accessibility requirements, we’ll be able to help you from there.