What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Data Quality Engineer (Remote US, EST/CST/MST only) position at Digimarc?
About Us:
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) is the global leader in product digitization. A pioneer in digital watermarks, Digimarc connects every physical and digital item to a digital twin that enables the capture of product data, records events and interactions, and supports powerful new automations. Trusted to deter counterfeiting of global currency for more than 20 years, Digimarc is also recognized for ensuring product authenticity, improving plastics recycling, and more, with a commitment to promoting a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable world. In 2023, Digimarc was named to the Fortune 2023 Change the World list and honored as a 2023 Fast Company World Changing Ideas finalist. See more at Digimarc.com.
The cornerstone of our Illuminate Platform, the Digimarc Digital Watermark is an identification technology unique to Digimarc that provides an unparalleled level of covertness, ubiquity, redundancy, and security. Both in reach and performance, digital watermarking represents quantum leaps forward from traditional auto identification technologies, and enables any object to be reliably, efficiently and securely identified by industry standard imaging and audio technologies.
There are many important uses for the platform we have built. Our current SaaS products address critically important, world-wide problems that are vastly improved by our high-barrier-to-entry, unique offerings that: protect currency and consumer goods from counterfeits, reduce food waste, improve food and drug safety, provide a direct-to-consumer digital communication channel, improve the efficiency of physical retail shopping, and increase the quality and quantity of plastic recycling by revolutionizing today’s ineffective waste sortation.
As we continue to expand an inflecting -- and ultimately massive -- market opportunity that we are uniquely positioned to lead, we will productize additional use cases that work together with existing use cases to provide accretive value to our customers and allow them to complete their digital transformation journeys. Because with Digimarc, you can finally see everything. And when you see everything, you can achieve anything.
THE CHALLENGE ...
As a Staff Data Quality Engineer (DQE) focusing on test automation, you will be instrumental in enhancing our data engineering platform and ensuring data quality by developing automation scripts and frameworks that improve data product reliability and accelerate the delivery process. You will work closely with the data engineering team and quality engineers to meet automation needs and maintain infrastructure that supports continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), ensuring efficient deployment cycles.
With expertise in programming languages like Python, SQL,typescript, and SparkSQL you will develop tools that empower the data engineering team, including technical QE’s, to excel in automated testing and data validation. Your role is crucial in driving a culture of data accuracy, continuous improvement, mentoring engineers, and advocating for best practices in automation aligned with agile development methodologies. You’ll need strong data management skills, an analytical mindset, a laser focus on data quality, and be comfortable working with ambiguity.
What We Are Looking For ...
We are a team of problem-solvers united by our company’s immense potential to help solve complex challenges.
We align to the following Digimarc core values:
Collaborative – Stronger together
We embrace diverse perspectives and harness our collective talent to realize our full potential.
Curious – Listen and look forward
We think differently and seek out opportunities for growth to exceed our stakeholders’ expectations.
Courageous – Innovate with integrity
We challenge each other and do the right thing – even when it’s difficult – to deliver wins for our customers.
Join our team and work in support of a technology platform that can transform how consumer goods are made, bought, sold, and recycled around the globe. Digimarc is committed to the health and safety of our employees and their families. We are dedicated to diversity, professional development, and the success of our employees. For more information, visit us at www.digimarc.com.
Benefits:
Competitive salary
Restricted stock units
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, & retirement savings plan
Flexible time off / holidays
Training & Development
Mentorship opportunities
Remote Work
Digimarc is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected factor. We want the best people who share our values.
This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Principals only. No recruiters, please.
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $135,000-150,000. Placement within this compensation range will be based on factors that are relevant to compensation decisions including but not limited to skill set, experience, training, licensure, certifications, geography, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Digimarc is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected factor. We want the best people who share our values.
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) is the global leader in product digitization. A pioneer in digital watermarks, Digimarc connects every physical and digital item to a digital twin that enables the capture of product data, records events and interactions, and supports powerful new automations. Trusted to deter counterfeiting of global currency for more than 20 years, Digimarc is also recognized for ensuring product authenticity, improving plastics recycling, and more, with a commitment to promoting a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable world. In 2023, Digimarc was named to the Fortune 2023 Change the World list and honored as a 2023 Fast Company World Changing Ideas finalist. See more at Digimarc.com.
The cornerstone of our Illuminate Platform, the Digimarc Digital Watermark is an identification technology unique to Digimarc that provides an unparalleled level of covertness, ubiquity, redundancy, and security. Both in reach and performance, digital watermarking represents quantum leaps forward from traditional auto identification technologies, and enables any object to be reliably, efficiently and securely identified by industry standard imaging and audio technologies.
There are many important uses for the platform we have built. Our current SaaS products address critically important, world-wide problems that are vastly improved by our high-barrier-to-entry, unique offerings that: protect currency and consumer goods from counterfeits, reduce food waste, improve food and drug safety, provide a direct-to-consumer digital communication channel, improve the efficiency of physical retail shopping, and increase the quality and quantity of plastic recycling by revolutionizing today’s ineffective waste sortation.
As we continue to expand an inflecting -- and ultimately massive -- market opportunity that we are uniquely positioned to lead, we will productize additional use cases that work together with existing use cases to provide accretive value to our customers and allow them to complete their digital transformation journeys. Because with Digimarc, you can finally see everything. And when you see everything, you can achieve anything.
THE CHALLENGE ...
As a Staff Data Quality Engineer (DQE) focusing on test automation, you will be instrumental in enhancing our data engineering platform and ensuring data quality by developing automation scripts and frameworks that improve data product reliability and accelerate the delivery process. You will work closely with the data engineering team and quality engineers to meet automation needs and maintain infrastructure that supports continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), ensuring efficient deployment cycles.
With expertise in programming languages like Python, SQL,typescript, and SparkSQL you will develop tools that empower the data engineering team, including technical QE’s, to excel in automated testing and data validation. Your role is crucial in driving a culture of data accuracy, continuous improvement, mentoring engineers, and advocating for best practices in automation aligned with agile development methodologies. You’ll need strong data management skills, an analytical mindset, a laser focus on data quality, and be comfortable working with ambiguity.
What We Are Looking For ...
- BS in Computer Science, or relevant combination of education and experience.
- 5 years of hands-on experience in a Senior/Staff SDET or DQE Automation role or similar position on a data engineering team.
- Extensive experience in developing and maintaining data quality and observability automation frameworks.
- Experience in multiple programming languages such as Bash, Typescript, Python, SQL, Spark SQL or similar languages commonly used in test data automation.
- Experience with popular data quality tools (e.g., great expectations, SODA)and CI/CD technologies (e.g., GitHub Actions) or similar tools.
- Deep understanding of quality vs testing, and knowledge on how to build quality into data pipelines to allow the identification of data issues as soon as possible
- Strong programming skills in Python Java or similar languages commonly used in data engineering.
- Develop, implement, and maintain scalable automation data quality checks and frameworks for data pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses.
- Continuously monitor key data quality metrics to detect anomalies or trends and identify root causes of data quality problems and recommend solutions.
- Collaborate with data engineering team to identify automation needs and develop comprehensive test cases to validate data transformations, ETL processes, and data quality rules and using tools like Dataflow or GCP Composer (Apache Airflow) for monitoring and alerting.
- Define and champion automation standards and best practices, ensuring adherence across the team
- Leverage feedback to drive continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation strategies and processes.
- Work closely with the Quality Engineering leadership team to understand and implement the automation technical vision.
- Implement data observability practices to understand data flow, dependencies, and usage patterns.
- Generate synthetic or real-world test data sets that represent different scenarios.
- Assist engineering teams and stakeholders in measuring and tracking data quality improvement via test automation and generate data quality reports and dashboards to communicate findings.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to quality engineers, helping to develop their skills in automation.
- Ensure adherence to automation style guides and coding standards through regular code reviews and feedback.
We are a team of problem-solvers united by our company’s immense potential to help solve complex challenges.
We align to the following Digimarc core values:
Collaborative – Stronger together
We embrace diverse perspectives and harness our collective talent to realize our full potential.
Curious – Listen and look forward
We think differently and seek out opportunities for growth to exceed our stakeholders’ expectations.
Courageous – Innovate with integrity
We challenge each other and do the right thing – even when it’s difficult – to deliver wins for our customers.
Join our team and work in support of a technology platform that can transform how consumer goods are made, bought, sold, and recycled around the globe. Digimarc is committed to the health and safety of our employees and their families. We are dedicated to diversity, professional development, and the success of our employees. For more information, visit us at www.digimarc.com.
Benefits:
Competitive salary
Restricted stock units
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, & retirement savings plan
Flexible time off / holidays
Training & Development
Mentorship opportunities
Remote Work
Digimarc is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected factor. We want the best people who share our values.
This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Principals only. No recruiters, please.
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $135,000-150,000. Placement within this compensation range will be based on factors that are relevant to compensation decisions including but not limited to skill set, experience, training, licensure, certifications, geography, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Digimarc is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected factor. We want the best people who share our values.
Salary : $135,000 - $150,000
