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Senior Data Engineer

CoStar Group
USA
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data platforms
  • Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes for large, complex datasets
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, DevOps and DBA teams to deliver production systems
  • Contribute to technical design decisions and mentor other engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
  • Track record of commitment to prior employers
  • 5+ years of data engineering experience, including experience setting technical direction on projects and influencing design across a team
  • Hands-on experience building batch and incremental ingestion pipelines from multiple heterogeneous external sources (REST/GraphQL APIs, flat-file and SFTP feeds, third-party data vendors, and database replication/CDC)
  • Demonstrated experience normalizing inconsistent third-party schemas into standardized enterprise data models, including source-to-target mapping, deduplication, and entity resolution
  • Advanced SQL and strong data modeling skills (dimensional/star schema, normalized, or Data Vault), plus proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or C#/.NET
  • Production experience with a distributed processing engine and a cloud data warehouse or lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks/Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse/Fabric), including pipeline orchestration tooling (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Databricks Workflows, Azure Data Factory)
  • Experience implementing data quality, validation, and reconciliation controls for externally sourced data, with version control and CI/CD in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with agentic engineering with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code or similar) to accelerate software delivery
  • Production-scale expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables / declarative pipelines, Databricks SQL, Workflows) or an equivalent lakehouse platform, including open table formats (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi)
  • Experience with a modular transformation framework and tested, version-controlled models (dbt, SQLMesh, or equivalent)
  • Experience with managed ingestion and replication tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Qlik Replicate, AWS DMS, Debezium, Kafka Connect) and streaming or near-real-time ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming, Flink)
  • Data quality and observability frameworks (Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, Monte Carlo) and data cataloging, lineage, and governance tooling (Unity Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Collibra, Alation)
  • Master data management, entity resolution, or record-linkage tooling, including address and geospatial standardization
  • AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift), Terraform, and backend data services in C# /.NET
  • AI/ML and feature-engineering pipelines and ability to apply AI assist or agentic workflows for code generation, review and root-cause analysis
  • What’s in it for you?
  • When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
  • We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
  • Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
  • Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
  • Commuter and parking benefits
  • 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time off
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
  • Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
  • Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
  • The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
  • Base Compensation: $133,000 - $172,000 annually.
  • We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
  • #LI-CH1
  • CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Production-scale expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables / declarative pipelines, Databricks SQL, Workflows) or an equivalent lakehouse platform, including open table formats (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi)
  • Experience with a modular transformation framework and tested, version-controlled models (dbt, SQLMesh, or equivalent)
  • Experience with managed ingestion and replication tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Qlik Replicate, AWS DMS, Debezium, Kafka Connect) and streaming or near-real-time ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming, Flink)
  • Data quality and observability frameworks (Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, Monte Carlo) and data cataloging, lineage, and governance tooling (Unity Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Collibra, Alation)
  • Master data management, entity resolution, or record-linkage tooling, including address and geospatial standardization
  • AWS data services (S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift), Terraform, and backend data services in C# /.NET
  • AI/ML and feature-engineering pipelines and ability to apply AI assist or agentic workflows for code generation, review and root-cause analysis
  • What’s in it for you?
  • When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
  • We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.
  • Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
  • Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
  • Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
  • Commuter and parking benefits
  • 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time off
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
  • Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
  • Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
  • The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
  • Base Compensation: $133,000 - $172,000 annually.
  • We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
  • #LI-CH1
  • CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing

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