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Data Engineer (Early Career) (Canada)

Full Time · In Office · Canada

Posted Jun 13, 2026

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Jobright is your personal AI job search agent transforming the job search process. They are seeking an early-career Data Engineer to design and build data pipelines, ensuring data quality and collaborating with analytics and product teams.

Why Join Us

  • • Build real, production AI agents used by real users
  • • High ownership and impact
  • • Work at the intersection of AI, agents, and product
  • • Shape how people experience AI-driven job search

Responsibilities

  • • Design and build reliable data pipelines that move data from diverse sources into centralized warehouses and lakes for downstream consumption
  • • Own the full lifecycle of ETL/ELT processes, from schema design and ingestion to transformation, testing, and deployment
  • • Ensure data quality and consistency by implementing validation checks, anomaly detection, and automated alerting across critical pipelines
  • • Partner with analytics, data science, and product teams to understand their data needs and deliver clean, well-documented datasets
  • • Optimize query performance, storage costs, and pipeline reliability as data volumes and complexity grow

Qualification

Required

  • • Recent graduate or early-career professional (0–2 years of experience) with a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field
  • • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience writing and debugging data transformation logic
  • • Practical understanding of data modeling, warehouse design patterns, and the trade-offs between batch and streaming architectures
  • • Solid software engineering foundations, including comfort with APIs, version control (Git), and writing testable, production-ready code

Preferred

  • • Previous internship or project experience building end-to-end data pipelines or managing datasets at non-trivial scale
  • • Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks
  • • Hands-on exposure to orchestration tools like Airflow, dbt, or Prefect, and streaming technologies like Kafka or Spark Streaming
  • • Curiosity about how data powers product decisions, and a willingness to dig into messy, ambiguous data problems

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