Lead Data Engineer

About Bridgewater 

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. 

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles. 

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. 

Our Culture 

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here. 

About the Role:  

The Bridgewater Security program is building a world-class security data platform to defend its networks – this role will be hands-on, leading the effort to do so.  

Our Data Engineering team is looking to hire a Staff Data Engineer that has a passion for delivering high quality data products. The Staff Data Engineer will be responsible for building and operating a data lakehouse that delivers cutting-edge security operation capabilities. This individual will play a leadership role driving critical initiatives and owning both technical and architectural decision-making. A key portion of this role will involve partnering with customers to translate their needs into data products that extract value from data in a sustainable fashion.  

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Lead the design and development of scalable data architectures to support modern data analytics and real-time data processing 

• Build, maintain, monitor and troubleshoot streaming and batch data pipelines using Apache Spark 

• Build, maintain, and implement a unified semantic layer for security use cases 

• Develop and manage alerting, reporting, and visualizations for security partners 

• Develop clean, well-documented and well-tested code to build capabilities around the datalake in order to extract value from the data for data customers. 

• Collaborate with other security teams to understand, prioritize and meet customer demands 

• Hands-on development of data products and capabilities 
• Mentor, train, and develop teammates 

Position Requirements 

• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience 

• 5+ years experience designing, building and maintaining ETL pipelines 

• 5+ years experience delivering data products 

• 3+ years  experience with Spark 

• 3+ years of experience in software development including Python, SQL, Scala or Java 

• 2+ years of experience working with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure 

• Strategic thinker and problem solver with excellent analytical and reporting skills 

• Strong oral and written competency, along with outstanding interpersonal skills 
• Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, and deliver on programs and projects 

Preferred Experience 

• Experience working with cyber security datasets 

• Experience working with or exposure to cyber security functions 

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines 

• Experience working with modern data infrastructure technologies (Databricks/Snowflake) 

• Experience working with modern data formats (Delta/Parquet) 
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies 

Physical Requirements 

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.  

Compensation 

The wage range for this role is $450,000 - $600,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 60% - 70% of this wage range. 

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including: 

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services 

• 401(k) plan with generous employer match 

• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package 

• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare 

• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing 

• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms 

• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups  
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer