Staff Engineer, Data Platform
Americas- Engineering & Data
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About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $496 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About you
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work
About the role
Shopify is looking for a talented Staff/Lead Data Platform Engineer with expertise in infrastructure, security, and building data platforms on GCP or similar cloud platforms to join our team. You'll be a crucial member of the team and will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a data platform that supports secure and scalable data solutions.
Responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain data platform solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc
- Implement and manage robust infrastructure to support the data platform by leveraging IAC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform
- Develop and enforce scalable and effective access control policies using GCP IAM and other tools
- Collaboratively work with cross-functional teams such as data scientists, engineers, and analysts to understand their requirements and ensure that the data platform meets those requirements
- Troubleshoot and resolve operational and performance issues in the data platform
- Stay up to date with advancements in data infrastructure and evolve the platform to incorporate new best practices and technologies
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering with a focus on data platforms, infrastructure, and security.
- In-depth knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, specifically BigQuery and related services is required
- Experience implementing and maintaining infrastructure with tools like Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager, or CloudFormation.
- Strong understanding of access control principles, best practices, and implementation with GCP IAM.
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline development and automation using Apache Beam, Cloud Dataflow, or comparable tools.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
- GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification or other relevant Google Cloud certifications.
- Experience with security compliance standards such as SOC2, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, or HIPAA.
- Familiarity with additional cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.) and their data services.
We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. And remember, we want to know what you’re really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you’d like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖
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Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.
At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
The shape of a Shopify career
Ben joined Shopify as a frontline Support Advisor with no background in programming or computer science. He’s now a Director of Engineering. Spanning 10 jobs on 7 teams in 9 years, Ben’s Shopify career path has twisted and turned as he’s worked relentlessly to pursue a career as an engineer and adapted to the pace of change—all fuelled by personal and professional hypergrowth.
Our mission as a company is to spread entrepreneurship and help individuals become their own bosses and take control over their lives. I truly believe this mission and value in extreme personal growth and development extends to what’s expected as a Shopifolk. Shopify doesn’t like to tell people what to do. Not only is your career in your own hands, a lot of your day-to-day is too, which can be jarring for many people. To thrive here, you need to be someone who’s willing to take big bets on yourself and figure things out on your own.
Ben Cox
Director, Support & CX Engineering
Ben’s growth trajectory
2014-2016
- A support advisor for 2 years
- Studied dev skills. Learnt about our API. Became first API support person. Found bugs to fix.
- Eventually became a software dev
2017-2019
- Helped launch first finance product for merchants
- Became senior dev and launched new support contact centre
- Led a team as a dev manager
2020-2022
- Scaled a team from 4 to 60+ as a senior dev manager
- Became Director for Support and CX Engineering
We hire people, not resumes. If you think you’re right for the role, apply now.
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