# Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Data Engineering

**Company**: Dropbox
**Location**: Remote - Canada: Select locations
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $204,000-$276,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dropbox is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join its Analytics Data Engineering (ADE) team within Data Science & AI Platform.

The successful candidate will be responsible for solving cross-cutting data challenges that span multiple lines of business while driving standardisation in how analytics pipelines are built, deployed, and governed across Dropbox.

This is not a maintenance role. The company is modernising its analytics platform, upgrading orchestration infrastructure, building shared and reusable data models with conformed dimensions, establishing a certified metrics framework, and laying the foundation for AI-native data development.

The ideal candidate will partner closely with Data Science, Data Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Business Intelligence teams to make this happen.

They will play a crucial role in establishing analytics engineering standards, designing scalable data models, and driving cross-functional alignment on data governance.

Substantial exposure to senior leadership, shaping the technical direction of analytics infrastructure at Dropbox, and directly influencing how data powers product and business decisions are also key aspects of this role.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the design and implementation of shared, reusable data models, defining shared fact tables, conformed dimensions, and a semantic/metrics layer that serves as the single source of truth across analytics functions

- Drive standardisation of data engineering practices across ADE and functional analytics teams, including pipeline patterns, CI/CD workflows, naming conventions, and data modelling standards

- Partner with Data Infrastructure to modernise orchestration, improve pipeline decomposition, and establish secure dev/test environments with production data access

- Architect and implement a shift-left data governance strategy, working with upstream data producers to establish data contracts, SLOs, and code-enforced quality gates that catch issues before production

- Collaborate with Data Science leads and Product Management to translate metric definitions into reliable, certified data pipelines that power executive dashboards, WBR reporting, and growth measurement

- Reduce operational burden by improving pipeline granularity, observability, and failure recovery, establishing runbooks and alerting standards that make on-call sustainable

- Evaluate and integrate AI-native tooling into the data development lifecycle, enabling conversational data exploration with guardrails and AI-assisted pipeline development

## Requirements

- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience

- 12+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering with increasing scope and technical leadership

- 12+ years of SQL experience, including complex analytical queries, window functions, and performance optimisation at scale (Spark SQL)

- 8+ years of Python development experience, including building and maintaining production data pipelines

- Deep expertise in dimensional data modelling, schema design, and scalable data architecture, with hands-on experience building shared data models across multiple business domains

- Strong experience with orchestration tools (Airflow strongly preferred) and dbt, including pipeline design, scheduling strategies, and failure recovery patterns

- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical alignment, establishing standards, influencing without authority, and working across Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Infrastructure, and Product Engineering boundaries

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake) and modern lakehouse architectures

- Experience leading orchestration or platform modernisation efforts at scale

- Familiarity with data governance and observability tools such as Atlan, Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, or similar

- Experience building or contributing to a metrics/semantic layer (dbt MetricFlow, Databricks Metric Views, or equivalent)

- Track record of establishing data engineering standards and best practices in a federated analytics organisation

## Skills

### Required
- data engineering
- analytics engineering
- SQL
- Python
- dimensional data modelling
- schema design
- scalable data architecture
- orchestration tools
- dbt
- pipeline design
- scheduling strategies
- failure recovery patterns

### Nice to have
- Databricks
- Unity Catalog
- Delta Lake
- lakehouse architectures
- data governance
- observability tools
- Atlan
- Monte Carlo
- Great Expectations
- metrics/semantic layer
- dbt MetricFlow
- Databricks Metric Views

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