Staff Engineer, Data (Remote, US)

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

At Renew Home, we are committed to transforming how residential energy is managed across North America. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will serve as a foundational technical leader shaping our end-to-end data platform strategy, real-time streaming pipelines, and enterprise data lakehouse ecosystem. You will architect high-throughput, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of processing streaming device telemetry from millions of connected homes to support scalable analytics, operational insights, and machine learning initiatives.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful technical leadership responsibility. You will act as a force multiplier across the engineering organization by mentoring engineers, incorporating feedback, influencing engineering culture, and helping shape how we work.

What You Will Do

• Define and drive the long-term data architecture vision, roadmap, and design standards across Renew Home's virtual power plant ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and resilience.
• Lead the design and implementation of fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming data infrastructure capable of continuously processing data from millions of connected devices.
• Collaborate closely with application and analytics engineering teams to drive data architecture vision and delivery.
• Direct database architecture and continuous performance tuning across PostgreSQL Aurora, AWS Redshift, and query engines through advanced indexing, partitioning, and workload management strategies.
• Set high technical standards for data pipeline development, monitoring, data quality, and uptime; actively lead infrastructure management and support operations in our on-call rotation
• Mentor and guide senior and mid-level data engineers, promoting engineering best practices, architectural design reviews, and technical growth across the organization.
• Continuously evaluate, prototype, and integrate modern data technologies and frameworks (e.g., Python, Redshift, Postgres, AWS/GCP, Lambda, Kinesis, Prefect, Iceberg, Terraform) to ensure optimal system evolution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software and data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architectural leadership at scale.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating production-grade high-volume batch and real-time data streaming architectures using technologies like GCP PubSub, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
• Deep expertise in building scalable data lake architectures (AWS S3, Iceberg, AWS Glue, Delta Lake) and managing structured and unstructured device telemetry data.
• Expert hands-on proficiency in database design, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and partitioning with AWS Redshift and PostgreSQL Aurora.
• Mastery of Python and SQL with strong software engineering principles, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDKTF and AWS CDK.
• Self-starter with exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of turning complex ambiguous problems into clean, scalable technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering talent, drive cross-functional alignment, and champion data infrastructure best practices across multiple teams.
• Bonuses: Extensive experience optimizing enterprise-scale data warehouses and leveraging advanced Redshift capabilities (e.g., Redshift Spectrum, concurrency scaling, Workload Management).
• Hands-on experience with big data engines (e.g., Apache Spark, Ray) or building end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines.
• Active contributions to open-source data ecosystems or relevant advanced certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, GCP Professional Data Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Professional).

What You'll Get

A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $170k - $220k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.

Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.

Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.

Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.

401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.

Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.