Staff Data Warehouse Engineer
About the role
Join BILL as a Staff Data Warehouse Engineer and help build the trusted data backbone that powers decision-making across Finance, Product, and Go-to-Market. You’ll be a senior technical owner on our Data Operations & Enablement team, designing and delivering end-to-end pipelines and warehouse architecture that become the single source of truth for the business.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of pipelines and warehouse architecture, from design through production, for new builds, migrations, and re-platforming efforts.
- Administer and harden the data warehouse, including schema design, performance tuning, stability, and cost-aware optimization.
- Embed data quality and governance into pipelines by default — testing, documentation, lineage — not as afterthoughts.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into clear technical designs; scope tradeoffs and dependencies with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Define and codify simple, stable, repeatable engineering standards and patterns adopted by the broader team.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance to raise the technical bar.
- Evaluate and introduce tools or architecture patterns when they materially improve scale, reliability, or cost and be able to justify and explain the rationale.
- Design the warehouse to be queried by AI agents, not just people. This means structuring models, naming conventions, and metadata so natural-language querying returns correct results, and authoring the skill files that let AI tools query the warehouse safely and accurately rather than guessing at intent.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or combined software/data engineering roles, with a track record of owning significant warehouse builds end-to-end.
- Expert-level SQL (multiple dialects) and strong Python, with examples of production-grade applications beyond ad hoc scripts.
- Deep knowledge of ETL/ELT design, ingestion methods, and orchestration (e.g., dbt, Airflow or equivalents).
- Hands-on experience with modern lakehouse/warehouse platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Trino/Starburst, or similar) and understanding of engine tradeoffs.
- Experience in financial services and/or SaaS environments.
- Comfort operating with minimal DevOps/IT support on core database and warehouse administration.
- Proven mentorship and standards-setting experience; formal management not required.
Qualifications
We value purpose, drive, and curiosity—and we thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Whether in one of our offices in San Jose, CA, Draper, UT, or in a remote-eligible role, BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks.
Skills
Bring a builder’s mindset, a bias for simplicity, and a passion for elevating standards. Your work will be the foundation others build on.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
- HSA & FSA accounts
- Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off
- Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
- Wellness & Fitness initiatives
- Employee recognition and referral programs
Pay
The estimated salary range for this role is noted below for our San Jose based role. Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience, expertise, and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above.
San Jose pay range $174,600—$209,300 USD
Schedule
The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to a transparent, inclusive hiring process that reflects our values. If you need accommodations at any stage, please contact interviewaccommodations@hq.bill.com.