Staff Data Engineers

About the role

Build the data systems that power global commerce. As a Staff Data Engineer at Shopify, you’ll architect pipelines that transform complex information into valuable insights. Your work will shape our technical direction and help millions of merchants make smarter decisions. Whether optimizing data models or creating new analytics tools, your expertise drives what’s possible here. Ready to solve challenges that matter?

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable models and streaming or real-time pipelines that drive insights and innovation.
• Transform raw information into intelligence to support merchant success and excellence.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to ensure quality and integrity across platforms.
• Optimize workflows and infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability.
• Lead efforts in peer-reviewing and standardizing practices to uphold benchmarks.This role may require on-call work.

Qualifications:

• Experience designing and building streaming or real-time data pipelines, including hands-on work with event-driven architectures and high-throughput data systems (e.g., Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka, or equivalent).
• Extensive data modeling experience, utilizing various paradigms and techniques.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with visualization tools.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, and relevant technologies.
• Experience with batch transformation and warehouse layers on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proven ability to translate complex information into strategic insights while working effectively with teams.

At Shopify, we pride ourselves on moving quickly—not just in shipping, but in our hiring process as well. If you’re ready to apply, please be prepared to interview with us within the week. Our goal is to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days.

Ready to turn raw data into product gold? Join the team that’s making commerce better for everyone.

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion
• Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they’re built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen, select, and assess applications. All AI outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.

We hire people, not resumes. If you think you’re right for the role, apply now.