Senior Data Engineer

Mainstay Labs Inc.
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward technical leaders with real estate domain knowledge and experience in cloud data warehouses, comfortable with building data products as the shipped output.

Best fit for

  • Technical leaders with 6+ years of data engineering experience and a background in cloud data warehouses
    — “6+ years of experience working in data engineering or software engineering”
  • Candidates who can transition into real estate domain expertise while maintaining technical rigor
    — “Become a domain expert in real estate”
  • Individuals who thrive in small, high-quality engineering teams with a product-focused mindset
    — “We’re a small team dedicated to quality engineering and are looking for a technical leader to help us evolve our products”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong commitment to shaping products, not just supporting internal teams
    — “your data engineering output will be the shipped product and not just an internal resource”
  • The company is remote but may expect a high level of collaboration and availability for a small team
    — “We’re a small team dedicated to quality engineering”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in designing data workflows and cloud data warehouses in your resume and interview answers
    — “Design graceful and reliable workflows to generate data assets”
  • Emphasize your ability to establish data engineering standards and best practices
    — “Establish standards and best practices for data engineering”
  • Demonstrate your experience with data orchestration systems like Airflow or Prefect
    — “Experience with Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or a similar orchestration system”
  • Include hands-on experience with data platform infrastructure tools such as Terraform or Docker
    — “Hands-on experience managing data platform infrastructure, with proficiency in tools such as Terraform, Docker, and AWS services”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • architected durable data models
  • designed reliable workflows
  • established standards and best practices
Typical background
data engineeringsoftware engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Data EngineeringData ModelingCloud Data WarehousesData PipelinesSQLPythonSpark

Preferred

AirflowPrefectDagsterWeb ScrapingAi/ml PlatformsTerraformDockerAWS Services

Stack & domain

Data EngineeringData ModelingData PipelinesCloud Data WarehousesBatch Data ProcessingTeam CollaborationProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipReal EstateAI

About the role

Original posting from Mainstay Labs Inc. via Ashby

ABOUT MAINSTAY

Mainstay is the leading market intelligence platform purpose built for buying, managing, and selling homes in the single family rental industry. As an AI native company, we turn complex data into clarity that helps the industry move forward with confidence. Founded within Opendoor, Mainstay launched as an independent company in 2024 and recently raised a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.

Ready to shape the future of real estate with AI? Join Mainstay and help us redefine what’s possible in the single family rental space. If you thrive on solving complex problems and want to make a tangible impact in a fast-growing industry, we’d love to hear from you - apply now and let’s move the industry forward, together!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for building data products in partnership with our data science and product teams. This is a rare opportunity where your data engineering output will be the shipped product and not just an internal resource. Our customers are businesses operating in the single-family home market and our goal is to provide them with high quality data to inform underwriting, leasing, vendor management, and more. We’re a small team dedicated to quality engineering and are looking for a technical leader to help us evolve our products and establish best practices.

YOU’RE EXPECTED TO:

  • Architect durable data models with intuitive representations of residential real estate
  • Design graceful and reliable workflows to generate data assets
  • Inform the overall architecture of our data platform
  • Establish standards and best practices for data engineering
  • Become a domain expert in real estate

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • 6+ years of experience working in data engineering or software engineering
  • Expertise in data architecture, data modeling, and building data pipelines at scale
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or Spark
  • Expertise in cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
  • Experience scheduling and operating batch data processing workflows

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

  • Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or a similar orchestration system
  • Data Warehouse (DWH) architecture and Change Data Capture (CDC) modeling techniques
  • Web scraping and data extraction from public or semi-structured sources
  • Experience with AI/ML platforms such as SageMaker, MLflow, or similar
  • Hands-on experience managing data platform infrastructure, with proficiency in tools such as Terraform, Docker, and AWS services

MAINSTAY BUILT ON TRUST

At Mainstay, trust is at the core of everything we do. We build trust with everyone -- from candidates to employees to partners. We believe in fairness and openness throughout our hiring process, evaluating candidates based on qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status. Our privacy practices describe how we handle applicant information, you can find the policy details for California residents here https://mainstay.io/privacy.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, religious beliefs, or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at mainstay-recruiting@opendoor.com

Source: Mainstay Labs Inc. careers (Ashby)

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