About Ontra
Ontra is the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra’s solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors – including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide – Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important.
Our Culture
Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it’s embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.
Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.
About the Role
Ontra is seeking a Senior Data Engineer reporting to our Senior Manager, Data Engineering on our Data Team.
To foster team connection and collaboration, this role requires being present in either our Santa Barbara or San Francisco office up to once a quarter for team meetings and off-sites. As such, we are only considering candidates who are currently based in California.
This role is a great opportunity for someone excited to create and own a data engineering roadmap and continue to develop foundational data engineering practices at Ontra. Collaborating with product and engineering teams, you will translate other teams’ requirements into actionable engineering solutions with a focus on rapid iteration. A successful Senior Data Engineer will communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with engineers and business stakeholders.
If you are passionate about data, especially data architecture and modeling, we’d love to get to know you!
What you’ll do
- Deliver solutions with impact for our product teams and end-users while establishing frameworks to boost efficiency of data teams
- Architect and design strong dimensional models to support our rapidly growing analytics infrastructure
- Build data processing pipelines and infrastructure in support of product, analytics and ML initiatives
- Create a data engineering center of excellence, taking end-to-end ownership of technical initiatives and prioritizing for impact on objectives and key results
- Collaborate cross-functionally to lead data efforts and work proactively with stakeholders to translate data insights into product features
What you’ll bring
- Experience: 5+ years core data engineering experience, including data modeling, data infrastructure, event logging, and infrastructure. Specific technical experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, DataDog and AWS are a bonus!
- Databases: Strong understanding of using SQL and Python to build great data warehouses, with the ability to follow engineering best practices with minimal guidance
- Collaborative: Excellent communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, and proactively shares knowledge across functions to generate outcomes
- Data Driven: Looks at data to drive a path forward in technical design of data infrastructure
- Curious: Constantly researches new data engineering and driven to grow technically
- Problem Solving: Works well in ambiguous situations, excited to identify problems and provide solutions, even when first-order scientific approaches fail
Pay Transparency
Ontra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below.
Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission, variable compensation, profits interest units, or other equity-based compensation, which are not included in the below base pay range.
If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.
Hiring Locations
We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.
United States
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
APAC
Hong Kong
EMEA
United Kingdom
Benefits Snapshot
- Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
- Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
- Paid flexible time off policy
- Paid parental leave and benefits
- Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
- Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
- Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Travel
Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.
Inclusivity
Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
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Note on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.
Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to Ontra will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
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