{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8d696f4e7d8bcc9ed73e94eb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8d696f4e7d8bcc9ed73e94eb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8d696f4e7d8bcc9ed73e94eb","title":"Staff Data Engineer","description":"AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.\n\nAs a Data Engineer on our Business Data Platform (BDP) team, you will own the operational backbone of our data infrastructure and help lead our Secure Data Initiative — the company's active program to mature role-based access, tag-based masking, and governance across the platform. You will play a critical role in ensuring resilient, secure, and scalable systems that power analytics, AI, experimentation, and business decision-making across the company. This role bridges platform engineering, data governance, and DevOps—enabling seamless data delivery and access with leading-class observability and compliance.\n\nYour Impact:\n\nOwn the design, build, and maintenance of AppFolio's Business Data Platform's observability and testing solutions that identify reliability, scalability, or data quality issues and strive to continuously improve the platform.\n\nOwn the CI/CD architecture for our Github repositories — build the automated checks, deployment pipelines, and orchestration that every team's changes run through, and keep that platform running as new teams and use cases plug into it.\n\nManage service accounts, roles, and permissions across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools.\n\nOwn the creation of and performance of Data Pipeline SLOs.\n\nCreate and enforce data access controls, masking policies, and encryption standards (at rest and in transit).\n\nDefine and own access governance for AI-driven data consumption — scoping Snowflake Coco, MCP server, and agent tool access (e.g., Chat-to-Data) with least-privilege, read-by-default, and full audit logging as agents take on more direct data access.\n\nPartner with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy frameworks are implemented and upheld across the Business Data Platform.\n\nMaintain lineage and metadata documentation across key data domains.\n\nImplement and manage infrastructure-as-code for data platform components.\n\nDrive automation of routine operations (e.g., environment provisioning, credential rotation, usage monitoring).\n\nPartner with data engineers, data science engineers, data scientists, and analysts to improve platform usability and self-service capabilities.\n\nDocument and evangelize best practices for data access, job orchestration, and environment management.\n\nMust Have\n\n8+ years in DataOps, Data Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related roles within modern cloud data environments.\n\nProficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Airflow, Mulesoft, Linux scripting, and dbt\n\nStrong Experience with cloud technology, especially AWS tech stack (s3, ec2, eks), Docker and Kubernetes\n\nExperience with cloud data warehouse technology, such as Snowflake, including data security and governance\n\nAdvanced proficiency with Airflow\n\nStrong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, codespaces, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform etc.).\n\nExperience with building self-serve processes\n\nFamiliarity with security standards and practices for data (IAM, encryption, audit logging).\n\nFamiliar with Snowflake RBAC, object privileges, masking policies, row-access policies, and secure UDFs/SPROCs to support both data engineering and ML/AI workloads.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThe base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $152,000 - 190,000.\n\nThe actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.\n\nPlease note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.\n\nRegular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.\n\nAbout AppFolio\nAppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.\n\nWhy AppFolio\n\nGrow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.\n\nLearn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.\n\nImpact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.\n\nConnect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.\n\nPaddle as One.\n\nLearn more at appfolio.com/company/careers\n\nStatement of Equal Opportunity\n\nAt AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.","company":"AppFolio","rawCompany":"appfolio","city":"Richardson","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-24T08:22:36.252Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Staff Data Engineer","description":"AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.\n\nAs a Data Engineer on our Business Data Platform (BDP) team, you will own the operational backbone of our data infrastructure and help lead our Secure Data Initiative — the company's active program to mature role-based access, tag-based masking, and governance across the platform. You will play a critical role in ensuring resilient, secure, and scalable systems that power analytics, AI, experimentation, and business decision-making across the company. This role bridges platform engineering, data governance, and DevOps—enabling seamless data delivery and access with leading-class observability and compliance.\n\nYour Impact:\n\nOwn the design, build, and maintenance of AppFolio's Business Data Platform's observability and testing solutions that identify reliability, scalability, or data quality issues and strive to continuously improve the platform.\n\nOwn the CI/CD architecture for our Github repositories — build the automated checks, deployment pipelines, and orchestration that every team's changes run through, and keep that platform running as new teams and use cases plug into it.\n\nManage service accounts, roles, and permissions across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools.\n\nOwn the creation of and performance of Data Pipeline SLOs.\n\nCreate and enforce data access controls, masking policies, and encryption standards (at rest and in transit).\n\nDefine and own access governance for AI-driven data consumption — scoping Snowflake Coco, MCP server, and agent tool access (e.g., Chat-to-Data) with least-privilege, read-by-default, and full audit logging as agents take on more direct data access.\n\nPartner with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy frameworks are implemented and upheld across the Business Data Platform.\n\nMaintain lineage and metadata documentation across key data domains.\n\nImplement and manage infrastructure-as-code for data platform components.\n\nDrive automation of routine operations (e.g., environment provisioning, credential rotation, usage monitoring).\n\nPartner with data engineers, data science engineers, data scientists, and analysts to improve platform usability and self-service capabilities.\n\nDocument and evangelize best practices for data access, job orchestration, and environment management.\n\nMust Have\n\n8+ years in DataOps, Data Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related roles within modern cloud data environments.\n\nProficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Airflow, Mulesoft, Linux scripting, and dbt\n\nStrong Experience with cloud technology, especially AWS tech stack (s3, ec2, eks), Docker and Kubernetes\n\nExperience with cloud data warehouse technology, such as Snowflake, including data security and governance\n\nAdvanced proficiency with Airflow\n\nStrong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, codespaces, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform etc.).\n\nExperience with building self-serve processes\n\nFamiliarity with security standards and practices for data (IAM, encryption, audit logging).\n\nFamiliar with Snowflake RBAC, object privileges, masking policies, row-access policies, and secure UDFs/SPROCs to support both data engineering and ML/AI workloads.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThe base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $152,000 - 190,000.\n\nThe actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.\n\nPlease note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.\n\nRegular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.\n\nAbout AppFolio\nAppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.\n\nWhy AppFolio\n\nGrow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.\n\nLearn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.\n\nImpact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.\n\nConnect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.\n\nPaddle as One.\n\nLearn more at appfolio.com/company/careers\n\nStatement of Equal Opportunity\n\nAt AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. 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