Senior Data Engineer
Vanta
$190,000–$224,000
Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level data engineering role focused on building and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for a security and compliance platform. Day-to-day work involves designing data pipelines and orchestration models, managing a cloud data warehouse, writing large-scale SQL, supporting CDC pipelines, and contributing to front-end applications that surface analytical data. Suits engineers with a software-engineering mindset who have hands-on experience with modern analytics tooling such as dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, and Terraform.
Mid level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,350 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 800–2,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title in the body is 'Senior Data Engineer', but the opening paragraph refers to the role simply as 'Data Engineer' — advertised seniority is taken from the explicit 'Senior Data Engineer' framing used in the responsibilities heading.
The role's primary work is designing and building data pipelines, orchestration models, and warehouse infrastructure (ETL/ELT, dbt, Airflow/Dagster, Snowflake), which maps most closely to 15-1243 Database Architects. However, the JD also emphasizes a software-engineering mindset and front-end application development, making 15-1252 Software Developers a plausible alternative.
The seniority assessment is Mid rather than Senior: the hard experience gate is 'at least four years of experience working with data and two years in Software Engineering', which is below the threshold typically associated with a Senior-level scope. The 'Senior' title is advertised but the stated requirements support a Mid-level candidate pool.
Analytics tooling (Fivetran/Stitch, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow/Dagster) is listed under the 'How to be successful' requirements section with 'e.g.' qualifiers — the qualifier signals interchangeability of specific tools, not optionality of the capability, so these are treated as hard gates with alternatives captured accordingly.
No specific compensation figures are disclosed; the posting references 'industry-competitive salary and equity' and mentions that base pay ranges are shared for US-based postings, but no actual numbers appear in the text provided.
CDC pipelines and dimensional/fact modeling appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than a discrete requirements block, so they are treated as preferred context rather than hard gates.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): dimensional data modeling.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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