What drives you? Maybe you want to make the world a better place and tackle new, exciting challenges while disrupting an industry. Maybe you want to solve complex problems in applied machine learning, cloud deployments, or vehicle routing on an unmatched engineering team. Maybe you want to advance your career and work with the brightest minds in freight. If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place.

Interviewing is a two-way street, so let’s get to know each other. Here’s a little about us:

• We’re a unicorn. Following our recent Series D funding round, our valuation has surpassed $1 billion
• We’re growing fast — like, speed-of-light fast. In the past year, we’ve tripled our workforce and added thousands of square feet in Encinitas and Chicago
• We’re taking names. Find us on the CNBC Disruptor 50, SDCE 100, SDBJ Diversity & Social Responsibility, and Fast Company World Changing Ideas lists
• We’ve got support. Our investors include SoftBank, Susquehanna, Eden Capital, Volvo Group Venture Capital, SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures)
• Efficiency is in our DNA. Our mission is to reinvent North America’s $2 trillion freight industry by relentlessly eliminating waste and inefficiency
• Algorithms drive our sustainable shared truckload solution. Behind our carbon neutral shared truckload service is world-class tech (and a lot of sweat)
• We walk the walk. We make a positive impact in everything we do; our B Corporation certification is proof. We were the first B Corp in our industry 
• We ask a lot of our people, but take care of them. Our team has a lot to prove and the attitude to do it. Join our high-performance, high-care culture
• Pandemics aside, we offer flexible work schedules. Knowing you have a life outside of work, we won’t ask you to do your job from the office five days a week

What’s in it for you?

• Unlimited paid time off: Take the time you need to recharge, stay healthy, and do your best work
• Ownership: As a thank-you for your dedication, we’ll give you the chance to build equity at Flock Freight with stock options
• Retirement plan: Plan for your future with a 401(k) account, which includes sustainable investing options
• Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance with HMO, PPO, and premium PPO options — plus an elective flexible spending account
• HealthiestYou: Connect with a doctor virtually — 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Commuter benefits: Save on commuting costs with our commuter benefit fund and reimbursements for low-emission transportation purchases.
• Paid parental leave: Take up to eight weeks of paid parental or paid pregnancy disability leave — we’ll coordinate any extra state or insurance benefits for you!
• Fun stuff: Cold brew and kombucha on tap, intramural sports, surf club, free lunches — need we say more?

We’re changing how freight moves for the better, and are having fun doing it. You with us? Visit flockfreight.com/careers to join the Flock.

About the Role:

The Staff Data Engineer will be primarily responsible for driving the Data Platform roadmap of the Infrastructure team. The primary mission of this platform is to continue to democratize data access at Flock Freight in a unified way via Big Data technologies. The primary stakeholder of these products will be the Technology and Analytics teams consisting of analysts, data scientists and engineers. A successful engineer will collaborate closely with these teams to build a scalable and performant data platform and tooling to help scale the business.

Responsibilities: 

• Define Data platform roadmap in collaboration with Technology leadership and business stakeholders
• Define data needs from data science, analytics and product management into information to design relevant data platforms and tools to service these needs
• Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and Data warehouse to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity
• Design and implement production-grade data pipelines utilizing big data and distributed streaming technologies like Apache Kafka
• Improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering educated decision making across the organization
• Take ownership end-to-end, from defining the data architecture to implementing data models, pipelines, monitoring and quality assurance frameworks
• Write complex SQL queries and tune them for efficiency to quickly transform data into timely and actionable insights

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering and a proven track record of solving data problems at scale leveraging distributed data systems
• A good understanding of designing and building highly scalable Data warehouses, Data pipelines, Data Modelling, designing Data Lakes and Big Data Analytics using Nosql, and programming languages (like Python, Java, Scala)
• Expert in SQL and optimizing complex queries
• Proficient in programming in Python
• Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS platforms
• Experience working with dbt
• Excellent communication, collaborative demeanor and ability to work in distributed, multi-functional teams with the ability to articulate a point of view.

Committed to creating an environment that’s fair and inclusive, Flock Freight fills open positions based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We value the skills of people from various backgrounds and are proud to hire, promote, and retain talent from a diverse candidate pool. Diverse perspectives are central to innovation at Flock Freight and make our team better.

Flock Freight has zero tolerance for behavior that negatively impacts marginalized groups, including women, people of color, veterans, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We invite people of all identities to join the Flock! 

To ensure safety for all of our employees, Flock Freight's offices are fully vaccinated worksites. If you are local to either our San Diego or Chicago office, please know that we will require proof of vaccination to work at these sites. This vaccination policy applies to all Flock Freight offices and sponsored work events.