Dutch Pet

Lead Data/AI Engineer

Dutch Pet · Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver, Canada Closed
Applications are closed for this role. It was originally posted 2026-07-27. It’s no longer accepting applicants — see roles Dutch Pet is still hiring for →, or browse the live openings below.
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

Data Engineering & Infrastructure (50%)

Build, maintain, and optimize ELT pipelines using dbt, Prefect, Fivetran, and Airbyte

Own core datasets and dbt models in Snowflake in partnership with the BI and product engineering teams

Lead infrastructure modernization, including orchestration and dbt version upgrades, flow runtime reduction, and Snowflake compute and storage cost optimization

Drive warehouse security and governance work, including access controls, remediation of security assessment findings, and PII handling

Implement data quality tests, freshness checks, observability, and alerting across critical pipelines

Troubleshoot pipeline failures and data incidents, and drive root-cause fixes rather than patches

Event Tracking & Product Analytics (30%)

Own the event pipeline from instrumentation through Segment into Amplitude and Snowflake, including sources, destinations, and reverse ETL

Define and publish a typed event schema and governance workflow that frontend teams implement against, so event data stays consistent across web and mobile

Design and validate tracking plans for new features and surfaces, and confirm events flow reliably end to end

Debug identity resolution, user properties, and experiment assignment issues across Segment, Amplitude, and downstream tools

Build Amplitude charts, funnels, and dashboards that help product teams answer their own questions

Analytics & AI Support (20%)

Deliver ready-to-consume data marts that power product features such as recommendations, plus the baselines to measure them

Supply reliable, well-governed data to AI features that improve the member experience and vet workflows

Contribute to the semantic layer that lets AI tools answer data questions accurately

5+ years of experience in data engineering or hybrid data roles

Strong proficiency in SQL and Python

Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse

Production experience with dbt, including testing, documentation, and CI

Experience with customer data platforms and event pipelines, ideally Segment, including tracking plan design and destination debugging

Experience with product analytics tools, ideally Amplitude, including funnels, experiments, and identity resolution

Experience with orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster

Comfortable with Git-based workflows and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions

Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Familiarity with BI tools like Sigma, Looker, or Tableau

Bonus: experience with semantic layers, data contracts, or supporting ML and LLM applications in production
Why You're a Great Fit

You take ownership of data reliability and treat trust in the numbers as the product

You're self-directed and comfortable managing your own priorities in a fast-moving environment

You care deeply about data quality, reproducibility, and documentation

You believe good instrumentation is what makes analytics and AI work

You love animals

Competitive salary range of $185,00 - $220,000 CAD

  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Flexible PTO

Mental Wellbeing Options

Robust Holiday Schedule

Retirement savings plan

Growth Opportunities

  • Significant growth trajectory — you will be building something that matters, at scale, right now.

Pets First – business and medical decisions are always guided by the pet's best interest. We'll never compromise on pet health and we're all here because we care about their well-being

Agile Like a Cat – We have a bias toward swift action, while maintaining quality and accuracy. For us, that means being able to turn on a dime, like a cat, analyze our options – even ones that may not be on the table – then execute without perfection getting in the way

Creativity is our Catnip – Creativity feeds us and helps us push boundaries to always find better solutions, making the complex more accessible and easier to understand

Be the Human Your Dog Thinks You Are – Be kind, show care for your colleagues, and even if you're an expert - give others context, reinforce the positive, and help them understand.

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