Our mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. We empower students with financial support and supercharge their ability to pay down their debt, so they can get on the right financial track, fast.
We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including:
- Private student loans - low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments.
- Student loan refinancing - break free from high-interest rates or monthly payments.
- Scholarships - access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.
Earnies are committed to helping students live their best lives, free from the stress of student debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together!
Earnest LLC – Oakland, CA
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Duties: The Senior Data Engineer (Multiple Positions Open) at Earnest LLC in Oakland, CA will
design and implement tooling and abstraction patterns for orchestrating transformations in Extract,
Load, and Transform (ELT) processes by utilizing technologies such as Airflow and DBT. Develop
CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot, and identify and resolve defects through standard techniques such as
debugging, profiling, logging, or log analysis. Design and implement integrations with third-party
RESTful APIs to retrieve data and ingest it into the data warehouse, thereby enabling downstream
analytical workflows and business intelligence initiatives. Develop ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting
data from internal and external services into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse, along with setting
up ELT monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and performance. Establish and
maintain data infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform, provide technical leadership by guiding the
team in selecting appropriate technologies, tools, and languages to address both technical and
business challenges. Collaborate with analytics engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to support
building and optimizing data pipelines for analytics and reporting. Cooperate with senior leadership
to strategize and implement sustainable data architecture initiatives, as well as facilitating cross-
functional requirements gathering sessions with engineering, product management, analytics, and
data science teams to understand and fulfill data needs. Create and maintain detailed documentation
for data engineering processes, including data ingestion, transformation, and storage, to ensure clarity
and transparency within the team and among stakeholders. Document, break down, and estimate
project planning in JIRA, provide estimates for project completion, and communicate acceptance
criteria for project completion. Train other data engineers on ETL/ELT tooling, coach engineers on
best practices for data exposure and storage in production, and provide feedback on coding and
architecture via GitHub or through pair programming. Position is 100% remote. Salary: $151,070 per
year.
Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely
related field, plus 3 years of software development experience. The 3 years of experience must
include 3 years of experience with each of the following: (1) building and managing data pipelines,
data warehouses, and backend services; (2) Python; (3) SQL; (4) OLTP databases, including
Postgresql or MySQL; (5) OLAP databases, including Snowflake or BigQuery or Redshift; (6) AWS
cloud technologies; (7) orchestration tools, including Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect; (8) container
technologies, including Docker or Kubernetes; (9) server-side concepts; (10) building and
maintaining REST APIs or Graphql for data transfer; (11) real-time data streaming using Kafka or
Spark; (12) automating tasks with bash scripting; (13) data infrastructure provisioning using
Terraform; and (15) code version control using Git.
This notice is subject to Earnest LLC's employee referral program.
Interested candidates can apply online at www.earnest.com/careers [earnest.com] or send a resume to
[email protected] and reference job code 063.
A little about our pay philosophy: We take pride in compensating our employees fairly and equitably. We are showcasing a range of your potential base salary based on the roles location. The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related qualifications, internal compensation, candidate location and budget. This range may be modified in the future.
Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
- Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
- Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
- Robust tuition reimbursement program
- $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
- Competitive days of annual PTO
- Competitive parental leave
What Makes an Earnie:
At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other:
- Every Second Counts: Speed is our competitive advantage. Our customers need better solutions, and the faster we execute, the greater our chance of success.
- Choose To Do Hard Things: We win by tackling the hard things that others avoid, fueled by grit and resilience.
- Pursue Excellence: Great companies, teams, and individuals never settle and are proud of the work that they do. What’s good enough today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Excellence isn’t a destination; it’s a mindset of continuous improvement.
- Lead Together: Our success comes from how we work together. Leadership is not about titles—it is about action. We take ownership, drive results, and move forward as a team.
- Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously: We take our work seriously, not ourselves. The stakes are high, but a sense of humor keeps us grounded, creative, and resilient.
At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.
Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.
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What We Do
We empower past, present, and soon-to-be students to maximize their financial futures through thoughtful guidance and impactful products. We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including:
1. Student Loan Refinancing - break free from high interest rates or monthly payments.
2. Private Student Loans - low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments.
3. Debt Management - manage all your accounts and become debt-free sooner.
4. Scholarships - access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.
Why Work With Us
We strive to maintain and strengthen diversity and inclusion through employee-led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that empower our Earnies to step into leadership roles and drive our culture. Through ERGs, and with the support of our Executives, we provide a safe space for all Earnies to be their true selves.
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