Data Engineer - Data Intelligence - Team Better Data

  • Location
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Last Published
  • Dec. 2, 2024
  • Sector
  • Business Applications
  • Function
  • Data Science

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Better Data team. We sit within the Data Intelligence Camp, where we are responsible for enriching and curating data to help build reporting and analytics capabilities for our platform, leveraging data engineering, ML engineering and data science. We’re also working on levelling up Culture Amp’s approach to customer-facing analytics by leveraging Clickhouse for realtime analytics, to help HR leaders use data from across the Culture Amp platform to maximise and measure the impact they have on their organisations.

In part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

  • Lead the design and build of the data pipelines that underpin our analytics products.
  • Ensure those pipelines are tested, performant and observable.
  • Monitor end-user performance and optimise the schemas and queries.
  • Play a key role in promoting data best practices across the team and camp and support others to develop their own knowledge and skills.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure we’re responsibly managing our data in line with our privacy, security and compliance requirements.

You have

  • Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Redshift.
  • Skills in modelling and querying data in SQL and Python.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT tooling including DBT and Airflow.
  • Desirable but not essential - experience with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, ideally within AWS cloud.
  • Also desirable - familiarity with AWS’ data tools, including Athena, Glue, SageMaker, EMR.

ou are

  • A driver of technical excellence in a team environment. You’re an expert in your domain and are able to develop the expertise and knowledge of those around you.
  • Someone who loves collaboration - our teams are cross functional and you’ll be working with other engineers, team leads and product managers to deliver great outcomes together.
  • Keenly interested in understanding and solving customer problems. You think about how your work impacts our customers and improves their experience
  • A pragmatic engineer. You ask and understand what we're optimizing for before jumping into solutions, and can comfortably balance long-term objectives with short-term tradeoffs.
  • Aligned with our values, check them out here: https://www.cultureamp.com/company#values and demonstrate them through your working practice
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently, comfortable dealing with ambiguity when necessary. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work effectively and ask for support when required.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

  • Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
  • Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
  • Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
  • Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
  • Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
  • Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
  • Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
  • Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
  • 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
  • MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
  • Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.