Senior Data Engineer

The posting, as Evolve wrote it

At Evolve , we’re on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If you’re ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

Why This Role

At Evolve, data powers every aspect of how we transform the vacation rental industry. From optimizing guest experiences to enabling smarter homeowner engagement, our data platform supports scalable decision-making, operational excellence, and future-forward innovation.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be a key technical leader responsible for building and evolving our data ecosystem. You'll help design and optimize pipelines and architecture that support core reporting, analytics, and machine learning workloads, while also leading initiatives focused on cost efficiency, performance, and data accessibility.

This role is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about modern data architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and mentoring others while delivering high-impact systems that make data a true asset.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a senior technical contributor helping shape the design of scalable, modular, and performant data systems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design and deliver reliable data pipelines for analytics, reporting, and data science use cases.
• Develop and optimize ELT workflows using modern tools such as Airbyte, Fivetran, dbt, and Python.
• Design and maintain performant data models in Snowflake, including star schemas and other dimensional modeling techniques that support clean, well-structured, and easily consumable datasets - including those optimized for AI tools and text-to-SQL interfaces.
• Lead efforts to improve data observability, including proactive alerting, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
• Explore and implement open table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg) to enable flexibility, scalability, and interoperability across data systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud teams to ensure our AWS-based infrastructure is optimized for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices, including version control, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Act as a mentor to other engineers and analytics professionals, fostering knowledge sharing and high standards for quality and consistency.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and bring forward recommendations for improving platform capabilities, performance, or efficiency.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 6+ years in data engineering, architecture, or related technical roles working with large-scale data systems.
• Deep experience with SQL and Pytho

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immediate vesting match.

• Family Support: 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus infertility coverage.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, with 100% employer-paid dental and vision for individual coverage, a low-cost medical option, 10 free mental health visits, and pet insurance.
• Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, RTO (for full-time exempt employees), sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you.
• Travel Perks: Annual Evolve travel credit after one year and discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.
• Growth Opportunities: World-class onboarding programs, learning, and development resources to help you grow your impact.
• Connection: Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve.

How we work together

With our core values as our guide, every Evolver helps shape the company we want to work for and the people we want to be. We’ve cultivated a culture of collaboration, care, and responsibility that we can all be proud of, and we’re excited to see what you’ll bring as your authentic self.

Still curious about who we are and what we do? Read more about our business and our culture at evolve.com .

EEO

At Evolve, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Evolve participates in e-Verify for all positions.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please let your recruiter know.