About the role

  • Lead Data Engineer overseeing engineers and advancing the data platform at American Family Insurance. Creating tools and infrastructure to empower teams across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee a team of engineers in advancing our service-oriented data platform
  • Create tools and infrastructure that empower other teams and departments within American Family Insurance
  • Partner with stakeholders to refine undefined use cases into clear requirements
  • Design and build platform capabilities that multiple teams consume
  • Define and implement reusable patterns and infrastructure
  • Assess existing AI applications and establish standards for code quality, testing, deployment, and observability
  • Mentor data scientists and data engineers, conduct meaningful code reviews, and provide architectural guidance

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience building AI/ML systems that run in production at scale
  • Proven ability to take ambiguous, undefined problems and deliver shipped products
  • Strong system design skills with an emphasis on scalability, failure modes, and long-term maintainability
  • Deep software engineering fundamentals: experience with large codebases, design patterns, testability, and enterprise SDLC
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: RAG, agents, evaluation, prompt engineering, or fine-tuning
  • Expert-level Python programming in a software engineering context
  • Experience designing and building APIs for internal or external consumption
  • Deep experience with GCP, specifically Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and NoSQL databases (e.g., Firestore, Bigtable)
  • Applied knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration and workload management
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
  • Competitive 401(k) contribution
  • A pension plan
  • An annual incentive
  • 9 paid holidays
  • Paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
  • Student loan repayment program
  • Paid-family leave

Job title

Lead Data Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$131,000 - $220,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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