Staff Data Engineer

Ever since we started in 2007, Sunrun has been at the forefront of connecting people to the cleanest energy on Earth. It’s why we’ve become the #1 home solar and battery company in America. Today, we’re on a mission to change the way the world interacts with energy, and we’re building a company and brand that puts power at the center of life. And we’re doing it by designing a dynamic culture where employee development, well-being, and safety come first. We’re unlike any other solar company. Our vertically integrated model gives us total control over every part of the energy lifecycle – from sale through installation and beyond – so you can find endless opportunities for growth. Come join a career you can grow in and a culture you can run with.

This position is primarily remote, with occasional visits to a local office or our corporate headquarters for team-building, training, and collaborative project work. These on-site sessions are designed to strengthen connections, share insights, and ensure a seamless experience for our team and customers. Equipment pick-up from a local branch will be required. We will  provide advance notice whenever on-site attendance is required, making these times purposeful and rewarding.

Overview

We're looking for an established performer with a strong sense of ownership, who consistently applies software and data engineering principles to business contexts, proactively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems, able to lead well-defined projects or work through ambiguity to deliver solution and projects through active collaboration within and across teams. On this team, you will build out data pipelines to ingest and process myriad data points from our ~800K+ customers, employees, and solar & battery systems. This data is used across our company to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction, as well as, business and employee satisfaction and performance.

Responsibilities

• Professional development of a given feature, work with technical leadership on defining best practices, and lead projects from technical inception to completion, collaborating when needed with various members of the team.

• Delight consumers by ensuring they have the data they need to inform decisions, where and when they need it.

• Build and maintain data pipelines, SQL queries/views, and data transformations.

• Ensure the quality of data and jobs, by ensuring thorough testing procedures are followed. 

• Design, build, implement and revise business logic and data models that work toward a single source of truth for each metric and dimension used across the enterprise. 

• Ensure the integrity of data pipelines by monitoring job execution for timeliness and completeness.

• Other development lifecycle responsibilities as needed, including design discussions, code review, etc. 

Qualifications 

• Advanced ability to write SQL. 

• 3+ years’ experience maintaining systems that collect, transform, and visualize data.

• Experience using various flavors of databases, Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, MongoDB, Oracle, Dynamodb, etc. 

• Experience in software solutions to automate data source, visualization and analytics products.

• Experience implementing data analytics, visualization tools and programs using Tableau, Grafana, Google Sheets and/or similar.

• Experience with data integration and modeling tools such as Fivetran, dbt, Informatica, Talend, Pentaho, etc. 

• Experience using Git version control, including branching, merging/rebasing, and pull requests as a part of a >3 person team.

• Experience in Agile/SCRUM Software Development Process

• Bachelors in related field with minimum 3 years of engineering experience or equivalent experience

Bonus

• Experience with the Python language.

• Experience with ERP systems. 

• Experience with building APIs. 

• Experience with Github Actions / Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

Recruiter:

Please note that the compensation information is made in good faith for this position only.  It assumes that the successful candidate will be located in markets within the United States that warrant the compensation.  Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity:

Compensation decisions will not be based on a candidate's salary history. You can learn more here.

This job description outlines the primary responsibilities, some essential job functions, and qualifications for the role. It may not include all essential functions, tasks, or requirements. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and you need reasonable accommodation during the hiring process or to perform this role, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@sunrun.com.

Sunrun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.  We believe that empowering people and valuing their differences are essential for our mission of connecting people to the cleanest energy on earth. Learn more here: EEO | Sunrun