At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and development of our data platform while mentoring a collaborative team.
- Company: Join Benevity, a B Corporation committed to making a positive impact through technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible hybrid work, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team focused on continuous improvement and personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a difference by building tech that empowers social action and supports Fortune 100 brands.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in data engineering with strong leadership and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 137800 - 178080 $ per year.
Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits.
Benevity is seeking a talented Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer, who has an extensive record of hands‑on data engineering and data product development experience. This role, reporting to the Director of Engineering, plays a crucial part in shaping and executing on the technical strategy across our data platform, and in building it hands‑on alongside the team, raising both velocity and quality as we go.
Position Overview: The Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer will be the technical anchor for our data platform, and will lead the design of our data democratization strategy. You will bridge the gap between architectural vision and production‑grade engineering, working hands‑on alongside the team. This role requires a deep understanding of designing scalable, governed systems that power our ingestion pipelines, medallion lakehouse, semantic layer and the data products serving reporting, ensuring our platform delivers measurable value to the domain teams that build on it.
What You’ll Do:
- Hands‑on technical leadership across the full data path.
- Design and build the platform capabilities that let domain engineering teams take data from source to reporting themselves.
- Work hands‑on across the whole path: streaming and batch pipelines, transformation models, the lakehouse and catalog layer, and the semantic layer that defines the data products consumers depend on.
- Lead the design and delivery of our medallion architecture on an AWS lakehouse.
- Make pipelines configuration and metadata driven.
- Ensure every pipeline, dataset and data product is registered, documented and discoverable in our metadata platform (DataHub).
- Design the data product and semantic layer contracts that reporting depends on.
- Make AI a natural extension of your engineering practice.
- Work with Principal Architects to lead the technical direction of our organizational strategy.
- Collaborate with product managers, staff developers, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure security best practice across the technology stack.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture decisions and implementation processes.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to other developers on the team.
- Actively participate in architectural reviews.
What You’ll Bring:
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of scalable development experience.
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Solid software design fundamentals.
- Experience with domain driven design, loosely coupled systems, and event‑driven services.
- A track record of building reusable abstractions and frameworks.
- Comfort with abstract problem‑solving and ambiguous challenges.
- Deep, hands‑on data engineering experience across streaming and batch.
- Experience with data products and the semantic layer.
- Extensive experience with cloud‑native infrastructure in AWS.
- Proficiency in agile, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, DevSecOps and automated testing.
Great‑to‑haves: Certification in relevant cloud platforms or technologies.
Discover your purpose at work: We’re not employees, we’re Benevity‑ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more … Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co‑workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.
Where We Work: At Benevity, we embrace a flexible hybrid approach to where we work that empowers our people.
Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword: Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA.
Compensation Range: CA$137,800 - CA$178,080
Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer in Toronto employer: Benevity
Benevity is an exceptional employer that champions a culture of innovation and social impact, making it an ideal place for a Senior AWS Developer. With a hybrid work model, employees enjoy flexibility while contributing to meaningful projects that enhance internal infrastructure and security. The company prioritizes professional growth, offering opportunities for skill development and collaboration within a supportive team environment, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant community focused on positive change.
