Data Engineer (Early Career) (Canada)
- Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Recent graduate or early-career professional (0–2 years of experience) with a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Jobright is your personal AI job search agent transforming the job search process. They are seeking an early-career Data Engineer to design and build data pipelines, ensuring data quality and collaborating with analytics and product teams.
Why Join Us
- Build real, production AI agents used by real users
- High ownership and impact
- Work at the intersection of AI, agents, and product
- Shape how people experience AI-driven job search
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable data pipelines that move data from diverse sources into centralized warehouses and lakes for downstream consumption
- Own the full lifecycle of ETL/ELT processes, from schema design and ingestion to transformation, testing, and deployment
- Ensure data quality and consistency by implementing validation checks, anomaly detection, and automated alerting across critical pipelines
- Partner with analytics, data science, and product teams to understand their data needs and deliver clean, well-documented datasets
- Optimize query performance, storage costs, and pipeline reliability as data volumes and complexity grow
Qualification
Required
- Recent graduate or early-career professional (0–2 years of experience) with a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience writing and debugging data transformation logic
- Practical understanding of data modeling, warehouse design patterns, and the trade-offs between batch and streaming architectures
- Solid software engineering foundations, including comfort with APIs, version control (Git), and writing testable, production-ready code
Preferred
- Previous internship or project experience building end-to-end data pipelines or managing datasets at non-trivial scale
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks
- Hands-on exposure to orchestration tools like Airflow, dbt, or Prefect, and streaming technologies like Kafka or Spark Streaming
- Curiosity about how data powers product decisions, and a willingness to dig into messy, ambiguous data problems
More about this job
Responsibilities
Design, build, and manage reliable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes, including ingestion, transformation, testing, and deployment. Maintain data quality and documentation, collaborate with analytics, data science, and product teams, and optimize query performance, storage costs, and pipeline reliability.
Requirements
Candidates should be recent graduates or early-career professionals with 0–2 years of experience and a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field. Required qualifications include strong Python and SQL skills, knowledge of data modeling and warehouse design, understanding of batch and streaming trade-offs, and solid software engineering foundations; experience with pipelines, cloud data platforms, orchestration, or streaming tools is preferred.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data Pipeline Development
- ETL/ELT
- Data Modeling
- Data Warehousing
- Data Quality
- Data Validation
- Anomaly Detection
- Query Optimization
- APIs
- Git
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Workflow Orchestration
- Batch and Streaming Architectures
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- Python
- SQL
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- ETL/ELT
- Data Ingestion
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lakes
- Data Quality
- Data Validation
- Anomaly Detection
- Automated Alerting
- APIs
- Git
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Redshift
- Databricks
- Airflow
- dbt
- Prefect
- Kafka
- Spark Streaming
- Batch Processing
- Streaming Architectures
- Query Optimization
- Analytics
- Data Science