Staff Data Engineer

Ideal start date: May 2026

Role status: Exempt

Compensation: Our target hiring range is $180,000-$200,000 plus participation in our Annual Bonus Program with eligibility for $12,000 bonus. Actual compensation will be commensurate with experience and skills.

Campminder's Flexible Working Location: Our employees have the option to work 100% remotely within the United States or their choice of days at home and at our office in Boulder, Colorado. We host a variety of all-company hybrid meetings and social events. We require anybody working remotely to have a very reliable, high-speed internet connection.

We know the best people can choose to work anywhere.

Here's a few reasons why 85 of them choose Campminder:

• With 20 years experience of serving the industry through its digital transformation, we're stable, profitable, and have developed a loyal customer base (that continues to grow).
• We build software for summer camps, an industry that enables meaningful experiences for kids.
• We work on interesting, ambitious projects that create real value for our clients.
• We know our team members feel their work has an impact on the organization's purpose.
• At the same time, we are genuinely committed to work/life balance. Our team members feel they have the flexibility to take time off when needed and feel supported in making use of flexible working arrangements.
• We invest in emerging technology and cutting-edge leadership and are proud to take an "AI-Enabled" approach in our solutions.
• We've been listed on Outside Magazine's 50 Best Places to Work for 8 consecutive years for our values-led culture and employee experience.
  
  

This role's mission & overview: We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data team to lead the design and implementation of a new data architecture powering critical customer-facing AI features. This person will play a key role in the future of the data and AI strategy of the company, and will design and implement data architecture best practices across the organization. They will also instill a culture of fast experimentation and iteration through fast feedback loops with customers, while keeping long-term vision and architecture in mind. They will provide mentorship and strong collaboration on data architectures and best practices across the entire technology organization.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives on solving hard technical problems that unlock a whole new class of valuable features for customers, while being in close collaboration with people across the technology organization.

As a Staff Data Engineer on our Data team, you will:

• Define the architecture for an AI-ready data platform, including data modeling, orchestration, transformation, serving, metadata, and governance.
• Partner with Product to design and implement AI-powered features that delight customers and bring Campminder to the forefront of technical innovation in the space
• Partner with Engineering management and architects to define and roll out AI-first data engineering best practices on the Data team and on adjacent teams
• Mentor engineers and raise the company's bar for data platform design, not just implementation
  
  

We think a successful candidate will bring:

• Experience architecting and implementing data systems for use with AI at scale
• Experience balancing short-term experimentation with long-term platform maintainability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and set technical direction beyond a single team.
• Passion for mentoring others and rolling out data engineering best practices
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into durable data and AI platform capabilities.
• Experience with AI tooling to significantly accelerate engineering work
• Deep experience with cloud data platforms, including relational and analytical storage, and sound judgment about when to use warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, or serving-layer patterns.
  
  

Our Interview Process:

• 45 min - interview with People & Culture
• 60 min - interview with Hiring Manager
• Phase 3
• 60 min - coding interview with Engineering team members
• 60 min - architecture interview with Engineering team members
• 30 min - interview with CTO
  

A few of the benefits we are proud to offer:

• Robust medical, dental, and vision coverage options with generous employer contributions, plus a $500 employer HSA contribution for HSA-compatible plans
• Ability to choose where you work - remotely, in the office, or a mix!
• A variety of resources to support mental health and emotional well-being
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents, including via adoption, surrogacy, and foster care
• 401(k) with 4% company matching
• Trust-Based (flexible) PTO (and yes, we use it!)
• $900/year wellness allowance
• Company-paid subscriptions, training, and support for using AI professionally and personally. We have a team dedicated to enabling our AI capabilities for our team members and our customers!
  
  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply:

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. We welcome and encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other historically marginalized groups.

Research shows that women and people of color tend not to apply to jobs unless they believe they are 100% qualified and apply to fewer senior-level positions. With that in mind, we encourage you to apply if you're not sure whether you meet our qualifications. We'd love to have the opportunity to consider you!

We encourage applications from parents, parents-to-be, and those responsible for the caretaking of others. We offer paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents (including for adoption, surrogacy, and foster care placement) and paid loss leave to recover from miscarriage or stillbirth. The company's HSA and wellness allowance contributions may be used toward childcare, eldercare, adoption fees, and fertility treatments like IVF, among other expenses.