At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.
If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.
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As a Senior Data & AI Platforms Engineer, you will join a small, high-performing team dedicated to building a robust, scalable, and modern data ecosystem. You will partner closely with data analysts, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to design data solutions that power analytics, operational insights, and product innovations.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys end-to-end ownership, and brings a deep understanding of both data systems and business context. Long-term, platform-based thinking is highly desirable. We want to build systems that solve the problems of tomorrow, not just the fires sprouting today.
Responsibilities- Architect, develop, and maintain data pipelines using Fivetran, dbt, S3, Glue, orchestrators, and custom Python jobs
- Manage and optimize data models in dbt, ensuring they are scalable, accurate, and aligned to business use cases
- Collaborate with analytics and commercial teams to design models and marts in our visualization tools that empower decision-making
- Integrate and transform data from a variety of sources, including AuroraDB, Snowflake Postgres, MySQL, and DynamoDB
- Uphold data quality through testing, validation, and observability best practices
- In the future, mentor junior team members and contribute to evolving our data engineering standards and processes
- Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business domains and ensure data design meets real-world needs
- Mentor and upskill team members
- Provide enterprise-wide guidance and prototyping on key data initiatives, especially as the data platforms team expands its scope to support production engineering from the warehouse
- 6–10 years of experience in data engineering or related roles
- Expert-level skills in SQL (window functions, CTEs, performance tuning) and Python (data pipelines, API integrations, automation)
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, and Fivetran
- Can navigate unix systems, terraform, and git as appropriate
- Deep familiarity with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, AuroraDB) and NoSQL systems like DynamoDB
- Extremely comfortable using AI tools to boost individual and team productivity
- Experience building out data platforms for AI Agents / AI Products
- Strong understanding of data modeling, warehousing best practices, and ETL/ELT frameworks
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and connect technical design with commercial objectives
- Experience in a high-growth, agile environment with modern data stack tools
- Exposure to data governance, privacy, and compliance best practices
- Strong understanding of engineering best practices related to delivery (CI/CD, continuous delivery, change management)
- Experience with CDC (Change Data Management)
We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $175-210,000 as well as variable (bonus) compensation and company stock options.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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