Open Position:
Closed Position:
Data & Analytics Engineer

Join us as we help support the vitality and resilience of communities

This position closed on
9/28/2022

General Info

Location:
Boston preferred, Remote (US)
Type:
Full Time
Experience:
Mid-level
Department:
Capital Markets & Knowledge Science
Reports to:
Director of Data Science

Compensation

Salary Range:
*
Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Paid Family Leave, and 401k.
*In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act the salary for this role is listed. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.
*Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

About Underline

Underline starts with our people.

At Underline, we've rapidly built a culture around ownership, trust, community, and innovation. Underline is dedicated to cultivating a growth environment where people feel valued, work with a purpose of mission, are personally rewarded, and are professionally challenged.

Are you ready to join this team and transform American communities?

Underline was founded in 2019 with a singular mission: to ensure the vibrancy of our nation through building intelligent community infrastructure in a socially equitable manner. We work with American communities to design, finance, and construct open access fiber-optic networks. These networks are critical to secure internet access that’s fast, affordable, and fair. As open access networks, this infrastructure is also the essential foundation for distributed healthcare services, new wireless solutions, and resilient infrastructure including modernized water systems and responsible energy creation. Our first two projects are in Colorado Springs and Fountain, Colorado.

About this Position

Does this sound like you?

  • You are hungry, humble, and curious
  • You have excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
  • You are an intrinsic self-starter and enjoy taking on new challenges
  • You want to be part of the early stages of a company where everything you build matters
  • You want a highly collaborative environment comprised of diverse subject matter experts in broadband networking, data center infrastructure, software development, and design
  • You care about building critical intelligent infrastructure to increase community vitality and improve resilience

What you'd be doing:

  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our data & analytics engineering architecture
  • Leverage tools such as Python, PostgreSQL, Airflow, dbt, and AWS to create and maintain data pipelines, data models, and other data processes
  • Expand and maintain our data lake and data warehouse to ingest & transform data from multiple sources, applying principles of master data management to maintain high degree of data quality and reliability 
  • Assist the data science team in standardizing & scaling data pipelines and creating databases 
  • Work with other teams to identify opportunities for new analytics workflows, data pipelines, and automated processes 
  • Make strategic recommendations about how to expand and improve our data & analytics infrastructure

Experience we require:

  • 3-5+ years of domain experience in data engineering and/or data analytics 
  • Advanced working SQL and Python knowledge, particularly data-related Python packages
  • Familiarity with data governance concepts such as master data management, data lineage, data quality, and data catalogs
  • Experience working with DAG-based data pipeline systems such as Airflow and dbt 
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS 
  • Experience developing applications for Linux
  • Working knowledge of source control systems, preferably Git

Bonus points:

Hiring Manager

Will Glad
Director of Data Science

Unsure about applying?

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But here’s the thing: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Underline is a place where everyone can grow. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

Position Application

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain exceptionally high standards for talent and recognize that there are many paths to developing expertise. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. If you have the skills we need and the ambition to grow fast with us, that's all that matters.