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Staff Engineer, Data (Remote, US)

Renew Home · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$170k–$220k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we have "Who We Are" and "Role Summary" and "What You Will Do" and "Requirements" and "Benefits". Also maybe "Pay" and "Schedule" if present. The posting includes salary range and bonus, so we can include a Pay section. Schedule? Not explicitly mentioned besides fully remote work environment, but schedule not given. So we should not create Schedule section unless present. Benefits section present. Also maybe "Qualifications" but we have Requirements. Use headings:

About the role

maybe combine Who We Are and Role Summary? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to map content accordingly. We have "Who We Are" - could be About the role? Actually "Who We Are" is company description, not role. But we could put under About the role? Might be better to have "About the role" summarizing role summary. The "Who We Are" could be omitted? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep company description. Could put under a heading like "About the company"? Not in allowed list. But we could embed it in a paragraph without heading? The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings. Likely they expect we use those headings only. So we need to fit content into those sections. "Who We Are" could go under "About the role" as an intro? Might be okay. Or we could create a

without heading for that intro. The instruction: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't say we cannot have other headings, but to follow the example. Safer to stick to those headings and put any other content as paragraphs under appropriate headings or as a leading paragraph before first heading? The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. It didn't forbid having a leading paragraph before any heading. So we could start with a

containing the "Who We Are" paragraph, then

About the role

with role summary, then

Responsibilities

with What You Will Do list, then

Requirements

with Requirements list, then

Benefits

with Benefits paragraph, then

Pay

with salary and bonus info. Also maybe "Schedule" not present, so omit. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, visa sponsorship, etc. Also remove "At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor..." and the EEO paragraph. Also remove "Please contact us to request accommodation." Also remove "We are an Equal Opportunity employer..." etc. Also remove "We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website..." maybe keep? It's promotional but not boilerplate? Might be considered part of Who We Are? It's a call to action; could be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but still a generic encouragement. Might keep as part of Who We Are? Safer to keep it as it's substantive? It's not essential but it's not boilerplate like legal. I'd keep it. Now we need to preserve all substantive information: company mission, role summary, responsibilities list, requirements list, benefits details, pay details. Let's extract: Who We Are paragraph: "Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America. We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone. We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard. We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing." We need to remove EEO boilerplate? The sentence "We are an Equal Opportunity employer..." is EEO boilerplate. According to instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we must remove that sentence. Also later there is a big EEO block at end; remove entirely. Thus we keep: "Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America. We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone. We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing." Now Role Summary paragraph: "At Renew Home, we are committed to transforming how residential energy is managed across North America. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will serve as a foundational technical leader shaping our end-to-end data platform strategy, real-time streaming pipelines, and enterprise data lakehouse ecosystem. You will architect high-throughput, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of processing streaming device telemetry from millions of connected homes to support scalable analytics, operational insights, and machine learning initiatives. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful technical leadership responsibility. You will act as a force multiplier across the engineering organization by mentoring engineers, incorporating feedback, influencing engineering culture, and helping shape how we work." Now Responsibilities (What You Will Do) list items: - Define and drive the long-term data architecture vision, roadmap, and design standards across Renew Home's virtual power plant ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and resilience - Lead the design and implementation of fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming data infrastructure capable of continuously processing data from millions of connected devices - Collaborate closely with application and analytics engineering teams to drive data architecture vision and delivery - Direct database architecture and continuous performance tuning across PostgreSQL Aurora, AWS Redshift, and query engines through advanced indexing, partitioning, and workload management strategies - Set high technical standards for data pipeline development, monitoring, data quality, and uptime; actively lead infrastructure management and support operations in our on-call rotation - Mentor and guide senior and mid-level data engineers, promoting engineering best practices, architectural design reviews, and technical growth across the organization - Continuously evaluate, prototype, and integrate modern data technologies and frameworks (e.g., Python, Redshift, Postgres, AWS/GCP, Lambda, Kinesis, Prefect, Iceberg, Terraform) to ensure optimal system evolution Now Requirements list: - 10+ years of software and data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architectural leadership at scale - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience - Proven experience designing, building, and operating production-grade high-volume batch and real-time data streaming architectures using technologies like GCP PubSub, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink - Deep expertise in building scalable data lake architectures (AWS S3, Iceberg, AWS Glue, Delta Lake) and managing structured and unstructured device telemetry data - Expert hands-on proficiency in database design, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and partitioning with AWS Redshift and PostgreSQL Aurora - Mastery of Python and SQL with strong software engineering principles, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDKTF and AWS CDK - Self-starter with exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of turning complex ambiguous problems into clean, scalable technical solutions - Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering talent, drive cross-functional alignment, and champion data infrastructure best practices across multiple teams - Bonuses: (list) - Extensive experience optimizing enterprise-scale data warehouses and leveraging advanced Redshift capabilities (e.g., Redshift Spectrum, concurrency scaling, Workload Management) - Hands-on experience with big data engines (e.g., Apache Spark, Ray) or building end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines - Active contributions to open-source data ecosystems or relevant advanced certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, GCP Professional Data Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Professional) We need to keep bonuses as part of Requirements maybe as sub-items. We'll keep them as list items under Requirements. Now Benefits paragraph: "What You'll Get A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $170k - $220k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay rangeFully remote work environment with home office set-up allowanceReal and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families firstCompetitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same. Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day" We need to split into readable sentences. Also note there is a missing space after "rangeFully". We'll fix. We should not include the visa sponsorship line: "At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students." Remove. Also remove the final EEO block. Now Pay section: we could extract salary and bonus info. But Benefits already includes salary and bonus. However instruction: create Pay section only if posting actually states them. It does state salary and bonus. We could either put salary info under Benefits or under Pay. Since we have Benefits section already, we could keep salary info there. But we might also create a Pay section for salary and bonus, and Benefits for other perks. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine salary and benefits into Benefits section. But they gave example headings including Pay and Benefits separate. Since we have both, we could make two sections: Pay (salary, bonus, long-term incentive) and Benefits (remote, allowance, PTO, parental leave, health, 401k). That seems reasonable and not too thin. Thus:

Pay

The base salary for this role is $170k - $220k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.

Benefits

Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance. Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first. Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits. 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same. Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Now we need to include a leading paragraph

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