Staff Data Engineer, Engineering Foundation
CookUnity
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><h3>About <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a>:</h3><p>Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.</p><p>Unwilling to stop there, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: <strong data-stringify-type="bold">empower Chefs to nourish the world.</strong></p><p>If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.</p></div><h4>The Team:</h4><p>The Engineering Foundation team is a newly formed team responsible for ensuring the overall architecture supports the company’s rapid growth and provides an excellent experience for all <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> users.</p><p>We’re undertaking a large re-architecture of many systems across the engineering stack, and we’ll shape (and build) the future frameworks, technologies, and patterns for the rest of the engineering org to leverage.</p><h4>The Role:</h4><p>This is a rare opportunity to work at a rapid growth scaleup company and build on an entirely net new system to set the engineering foundation and principles across the org.</p><p>As a Staff Data Engineer on the Engineering Foundation team, you’ll play a critical role in defining the direction for the future of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a>’s data engineering architecture. You will design & build net new data pipelines and systems that form the future base of our B2C data engineering stack, and set in place best practices and patterns for the entire <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> data engineering org to adopt.</p><p>We’re looking for someone excited about the prospect of taking an existing product that’s growing rapidly and helping to rebuild key components of our system. This will help set <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cookunity">CookUnity</a> up to scale gracefully for our next years of rapid growth, reduce overall system complexity, enable greater product experimentation, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster.</p><h4>Responsibilities:</h4><ul><li><strong>Design and build net new resilient batch and real-time data pipelines</strong> that power critical products and drive rapid business growth.</li><li>Design and build data pipelines facilitating the migration from existing disparate data m