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Data Engineer, Foundations

Grammarly · Hub - San Francisco · Remote

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About Grammarly

Grammarly makes AI writing convenient. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance and text generation on any app or website. Backed by IVP.

About the role

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data Foundations team and help us build a world-class data platform. Superhuman’s success depends on its ability to efficiently ingest and process over 70 billion daily events to improve our products. This role presents a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex data pipelines and systems, including contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and developing and shipping to production.

What they're looking for

  • You have 3+ years of experience running live production environments, including high-load or data-intensive workflows, with a focus on uptime and reliability
  • You’re proficient in SQL and Python, with deep hands-on experience in Spark and a modern lakehouse or cloud data warehouse (Databricks, Delta Lake, dbt, Snowflake, or similar)
  • You have strong knowledge of ETL/ELT design patterns, orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, or Dagster), data quality frameworks, and CI/CD for data with Git-based deployments
  • You have data modeling and data warehouse design skills, along with a rigorous approach to data quality and observability
  • You have hands-on experience with modern data storage technologies (for example, Delta Lake, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
  • You communicate clearly and collaborate well across diverse teams and stakeholders, turning business needs into robust data solutions and trustworthy metrics
More about this role

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

Preferred locations for team members for our Data Platform roles are our San Francisco or Seattle hubs.

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company's products include Grammarly's writing assistance, Docs’ collaborative workspace, Mail's inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here .

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data Foundations team and help us build a world-class data...

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