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Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that feels you are valued in the workplace. Do you not meet every single requirement but still intrigued? We encourage you to still apply! You can help make our company even better. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability, or any way you represent yourself. We strongly believe diversity makes for more successful teams.

Why Protolabs?

We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It's our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

This is a remote role based out of one of the following states: MN, NC, NH, MA, TX, or IL.

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, implementing and maintaining data processing pipelines for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a variety of data sources.

You will:

• Design, build, implement, and maintain data processing pipelines for the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a variety of data sources.
• Develop robust and scalable solutions that transform data into a useful format for analysis, enhance data flow, and enable end users to consume and analyze data faster and easier.
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery through Agile methodologies.
• Write complex SQL queries to support analytics needs.
• Provide informal data engineering expertise and leadership to the team.
• Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for data infrastructure and processing.
• Work with tools, languages, data processing frameworks, and databases such as R, Python, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Scala, BigTable, Cassandra, Presto, and Strom.
• Work with structured and unstructured data from a variety of data stores, such as data lakes, relational database management systems, and/or data warehouses.
• Conduct complex, important work under minimal supervision and with a wide latitude for independent judgement.
• Collaborate with technology & business teams to translate business requirements to technical specifications and coded data pipelines.
• Partner with user community transforming raw data into information.
• Maintain and improve existing data platform.
• Ensure compliance with organization data and software policies and procedures.
• Keep related groups and management informed of progress and support requirements.
• Assist higher-level programmers in the development of programs of a more complex nature.
• Provide feedback on team member's performance.
• Stay current on best practices in technology.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• 6+ years of experience working in data engineering
• Independent and self-sufficient
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, collaborative environment
• Relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server
• Data platforms such as Domo, Power-BI, Tableau, or Looker
• Experience with tools, languages, data processing frameworks, and databases such as Snowflake, DBT DOMO, Looker, and SQL.
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus points for:

• Software development in a continuous integration and continuous deployment environment
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

What you will get:

• Flexibility to work from home or in the office!
• We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity
• In addition, we offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:
  • Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
  • Dental and Vision
  • Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Paid caregiver leave
• You will receive PTO + Holiday Pay and Volunteer Hours
• 401k with company match and immediate vest
• Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate
• Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
• And More!

Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.

Proto Labs, Inc. is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer

Physical Demands:

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.