Thrive is a leading behavior change B2B SaaS company founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016 with the mission to end the stress and burnout epidemic. Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well-being, performance, and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps — small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity — have been adopted by employees at more than 125 organizations in over 140 countries. We’re leading the global conversation around well-being and performance, developing products and programs that help people go from knowing what to do to actually doing it.

Timely and trustworthy data is essential to the present and future direction of Thrive. As a company whose products have aspects of B2B SaaS and consumer apps, Thrive builds a data platform capable of complex event processing. Continuous improvement is fundamental to the success of the company. 

Thrive is in the first stages of establishing our data engineering practice—which is why we need you.

As a Data Engineer at Thrive, you will be a foundational architect and developer of a cloud data processing platform for a high-growth startup. You will need to handle a variety of sources and data consumers. You will also be developing the system underlying Thrive's data science efforts, which ultimately feeds back into the product for our end users. 

This challenge will exercise the entire range of your skillset as an engineer, which includes programming and the ability to gather requirements from stakeholders across the business to help create a data engineering roadmap with our team.

Who You Are:

• Have experience releasing quality code to production systems.
• Deeply understand or want to learn the plumbing of a modern data stack.
• Understanding of CI/CD for code releases and how it helps create better quality code.
• Write high-quality code and good documentation. We work primarily in Python, SQL (DBT), Although we are not exclusive.
• You are interested in understanding Thrive data problems spanning across many areas and passionate about upholding data integrity.

How You'll Contribute:

• Build data platform/solution/pipelines using Big Data technologies (Dask/PySpark, DBT, Meltano, Airflow/Argo/Dagster)
• Work cross-functionally with many teams: Engineering, Infrastructure, Marketing, Customer Success, Product
• Work on systems critical to Thrive’s future operation, impacting thousands of people's lives daily.
• Build internal core tooling for the data engineering team and be an evangelist for quality software engineering, with a focus on testability, reliability, and maintainability
• Perform all of the above in compliance with Thrive's privacy and security constraints, including SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR/CCPA
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

Must Haves:

• 3+ years of Experience with creating high-quality, fast services and workflows in Python
• 2+ years SQL Experience - understanding of data modelling, you will help build DBT models.
• Experience building distributed systems in a Data Engineering role.

Must Haves:

• Experience with big-data technologies like Big Query/Snowflake/Redshift, Kafka, Airflow/other.
• An interest in Looker 
• Customer analytics like Segmentation - Segment/CDP
• Experience within a high-growth startup environment is preferred.
• Open Source contributions or active GitHub repo

What We Offer:

• Being part of a mission­-driven company that's truly making a difference in the lives of people around the world ­
• Ability to develop within the company and shape our growth strategy
• A human-centric culture with a range of wellness perks and benefits
• A competitive compensation package
• Medical, dental and vision coverage + 401k program with company match
• Generous paid time-off programs

We don’t expect any single candidate to have expertise across all of these areas. We are keen to talk to you if you are a solid engineer and eager to work on data or health-related platforms/products.

Our Mission:

Thrive’s mission is to end the stress and burnout epidemic by offering companies and individuals sustainable, science-based solutions to enhance well-being, performance, and purpose and create a healthier relationship with technology. Recent science has shown that the pervasive belief that burnout is the price we must pay for success is a delusion. We know, instead, that when we prioritize our well-being, our decision-making, creativity, and productivity improve dramatically. Thrive is committed to accelerating the culture shift that allows people to reclaim their lives and move from merely surviving to thriving.