Staff Data Engineer

Everything we do at Sunrun is driven by a determination to transform the way we power our lives. We know that starts at the individual employee level. We strive to foster an environment you can thrive in through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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 that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to acts, such as The Equal Pay Transparency Act. It assumes that the successful candidate will be located in markets within the United States that warrant the compensation listed. Candidates in locations outside this local area may have a different  starting salary range for this opportunity which may be higher or lower.  Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity:

Sunrun provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, a wellbeing program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO). Other rewards may include annual bonus eligibility, based on both company and individual performance, as well as short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards. Compensation decisions will not be based on a candidate's salary history. Please note: Employee benefits do not apply to our Fusion and Street Sales roles, which are 100% commission-based, (1099-NEC) positions.

This description sets forth the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as some of the essential functions of this role.  It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all essential duties and qualifications. If you have a disability or special need that may require reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process or to perform this role if you are offered employment, please let us know by contacting us at candidateaccomodations@sunrun.com.

Sunrun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging drives our ability to build diverse teams and develop inclusive work environments. At Sunrun, we believe that empowering people and valuing their differences are essential for our mission of connecting people to the cleanest energy on earth. We are committed to equal employment opportunities without consideration of race, color, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal convictions, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.