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Sr. Data Engineer

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Bitly is the world’s leading Connections Platform, empowering businesses to create memorable connections with their customers at every physical and digital touchpoint. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, millions of people around the world rely on Bitly for custom short links, QR Codes, and landing pages that are easy to create, share, and manage. With tools to track and optimize every interaction, we help businesses understand what drives the greatest impact.

As we continue to redefine how brands interact with customers, we're looking for passionate individuals eager to drive innovation and shape the future of engagement. Join us in turning every click, tap, and scan into a powerful catalyst for connections.

We embrace diversity in experience and background as a vital strength. If you’re passionate and eager to make an impact, we invite you to apply—even if you don’t meet all the requirements. Different perspectives lead to the best ideas, and we’d love to hear yours!

 
The Role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Bitly, you will be part of a seasoned data engineering team responsible for designing and building Bitly's next-generation data platform that powers analytics, experimentation, and AI-driven product features used by millions of users. You'll architect, build, and maintain infrastructure responsible for delivering data to our internal stakeholders as well as customer applications.

Bitly supports every country in the world and every platform imaginable. Our systems are built to process an enormous amount of data (billions of monthly events). To support our scale, our infrastructure consists of hundreds of servers, dozens of services, and numerous real-time data streams.

What You'll Do
  • Build well-tested, well-documented data services and improve existing ones—optimized for both traditional analytics and emerging GenAI/ML workloads
  • Create pipelines to move and transform data efficiently; Design flexible internal and external APIs to expose our data
  • Establish and enforce architectural and data quality standards, including monitoring, observability, and governance frameworks
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional leaders (across product, data science, engineering, marketing, finance, analytics, etc.) to ensure on-time delivery of key initiatives
  • Support our internal teams in maintaining and designing user tracking events
  • Mentor other engineers on best practices and implementation approaches and champion a culture of continuous learning, technical rigor, and AI-first engineering practices

Who You Are

  • You have hands-on experience in data engineering on cloud platforms (GCP preferred), with focus on cost and performance optimization
  • You are adept at clearly communicating technical concepts to engineers and cross-functional stakeholders
  • You are an expert in SQL and Python, with deep experience in data modeling, optimization, and reusable frameworks
  • You have proven track record with modern data stack: orchestration (Airflow), transformation (dbt), streaming (Beam/Spark), and data processing (Dataflow)
  • You are experienced in data platform operations: containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and data governance
  • You are familiar with modern data paradigms such as lakehouse architectures, event-driven systems, and AI-centric data tooling
  • Good to have: Understanding of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and backend service development (Go)

US Employee Benefits

Your benefits start on Day 1!

Health & Wellbeing 

  • Inclusive health, dental, and vision plans built to support diverse lifestyles
  • Employer contribution to HSA plans 
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Enhanced support for reproductive health, family planning, and new parents
  • Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential counseling services
  • Comprehensive well-being benefits including reimbursement program
  • Flexible PTO policy and company breaks - At Bitly, we believe rest and relaxation are essential for rejuvenating the creative spirit that sets us apart

Inclusion & Belonging

  • Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups
  • Global DEI programming
  • Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together

Financial 

  • 401k with up to 4% employer match, access to financial professionals to offer our employees the opportunity to plan for a strong financial future well beyond their working years
  • Company Stock Options
  • Life, Short-term Disability and Long-term Disability options
  • Flexible workspace support provided, including home office, cell phone and WiFi service reimbursement
  • Coworking reimbursement for eligible employees
  • Voluntary Benefits: Pet Insurance, LegalShield, IDShield, Hospitalization, and Accident coverages
  • Reimbursement for professional development

Eligibility & Closing

US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
 
*** Must live in or be willing to relocate to one of the following states to be eligible for hire: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey,  North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington ***
 
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here. (https://bitly.is/CPRACandidates)
 
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Compensation

The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications as well as other business and organizational needs.

Base Salary Range

$132,145 - $181,699 USD

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process for all applicants. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process, please complete and submit the Bitly Job Applicant & Candidate Accommodation Request. All information provided will be confidential and used solely to facilitate your request. Your accommodation request will not affect your candidacy or influence the hiring decision in any way. After submitting your request, a Human Resources team member will contact you to discuss your request and the next steps.

Our Values

  • Be a Catalyst. As an innovative technology company, we build our products to be a catalyst for connection and encourage our team to be catalysts for meaningful impact both at work and in the world
  • Take Ownership. In our highly collaborative culture, Individual accountability is critical. We depend on each other to solve our customers' most challenging problems and celebrate the wins together
  • Inclusion. Our product connects people of all backgrounds and abilities. And our company is built on the belief that our differences make us better and that everyone deserves the opportunity in which to thrive
  • Show Integrity. We don’t cut corners. We don’t look for the easy way out. We approach every day with a shared mindset - let’s do the right thing, even if it’s the harder thing
  • Have Fun. Whether your time is here is as short as a Bitly link or as long as the links your grandma sends you, we want your experience at Bitly to be fun and memorable. We hope the connections you make here last a lifetime
In keeping with our values and commitment to inclusion, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. We’re committed to building a respectful, inclusive environment—free from harassment and discrimination—while actively addressing systemic barriers to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to grow, contribute, and succeed.

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