Data Engineer

Gong enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling their customer reality. The patented Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ captures and understands every customer interaction, then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue teams to make decisions based on data instead of opinions. Over 2,000 innovative companies like Zillow, Slack, PayPal, Twilio, Shopify, Hubspot, SproutSocial, Zoominfo, Outreach, MuleSoft, and LinkedIn trust Gong to power their customer reality. With Gong, customers experience improved win rates, increased deal sizes, and accelerated employee ramp times.

As an IT DataOps  Data Engineer, you will help the DataOps team build the data transport, collection, and storage, and expose services that make data accessible to all of Gong’s business data platforms. We are seeking a Data Engineer to develop a scalable data platform. You'll have ownership of our core business data pipeline that powers Gong’s top-line metrics. You will also use data expertise to help evolve data models in several components of the data stack. You will help architect, build, and launch scalable data pipelines to support Gong’s growing data processing and analytics needs. Your efforts will allow access to business and user behavior insights, using Gong’s data to fuel several teams across the organization. 

Role Summary:

We are looking for an IT DataOps Data Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team. This role will focus on building, optimizing, and maintaining our data infrastructure to support business analytics, data integration, and automation efforts. You will work with a modern stack—including GCP, AWS, Snowflake, Jenkins, dbt, Retool, Tableau, and Workato—to ensure data flows efficiently and securely across the organization.
You are a strong self-starter with the ability to navigate ambiguous, fast-paced work environments while managing relationships with stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Engineering & Integration:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Snowflake, dbt, and Python.
• Build real-time and batch data processing solutions to support business analytics and operational needs.
• Integrate data across multiple sources (cloud and on-prem) using a variety of approaches (such as IPaaS or API-based extraction).

DataOps & Infrastructure:

• Automate and optimize data workflows, deployment, and monitoring for reliability and performance.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure and analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with IT and DevOps to maintain secure and scalable AWS-based infrastructure for data workloads.

Governance & Security:

• Promote data quality, lineage, and governance best practices directly and through working with other teams. 
• Work with IT and ProdSec security teams to enforce access controls and compliance requirements.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data infrastructure and pipeline performance using observability tools.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or IT infrastructure supporting data platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake and dbt for scalable data modeling and transformation.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools (Fivetran, Workato) and workflow orchestration.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiarity with principles of IAM and Access Control.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with cloud computing providers (e.g., AWS or GCP) with special focus on serverless functions, storage, and orchestration. 
• Some understanding of infrastructure-as-code.
• Retool development and maintenance.
• Experience with Tableau Server & Tableau Cloud for BI infrastructure management.

PERKS & BENEFITS 

• We offer Gongsters a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs.
• Wellbeing Fund - flexible wellness stipend to support a healthy lifestyle.
• Mental Health benefits with covered therapy and coaching.
• 401(k) program to help you invest in your future.
• Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development.
• Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend.
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family.
• Company-wide recharge days each quarter.
• Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment.

The annual salary hiring range for this position is $106,000 - $125,000 USD. 

Compensation is based on factors unique to each candidate, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, qualification, education, experience, and location. At Gong, we have a location-based compensation structure, which means there may be a different range for candidates in other locations. The total compensation package for this position, in addition to base compensation, may include incentive compensation, bonus, equity, and benefits. Some of our sales compensation programs also offer the potential to achieve above targeted earnings for those who exceed their sales targets. 

We are always looking for outstanding Gongsters! So if this sounds like something that interests you regardless of compensation, please reach out. We may have more roles for you to consider and would love to connect.

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