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# Senior Data Engineer II at Apartment List

- **Company:** Apartment List
- **Location:** Within the, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list/am9icG9zdDrD9ttQELlA_sKnXol5Aj3J

## Job description

## About the Role

As Apartment List's data platform grows across more domains, more pipelines, and more stakeholders, the architectural decisions made today determine how much technical debt we're paying down in a year. We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer II (IC4) to own that architecture; end-to-end pipeline design, platform investment tradeoffs, and the technical judgment calls that keep the system reliable as it scales.

This is not a design-from-the-whiteboard role. You'll still be hands-on-keyboard: writing pipelines, debugging production issues, and shipping code alongside the team. What sets this role apart is scope; you'll make architectural decisions independently, influence how Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and Engineering partners build on the platform, and be the person other data engineers come to when a design decision needs a second opinion. You'll work closely with Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and Engineering partners to shape how the data platform evolves.

Here's what you'll do as part of the team

- Own and evolve data pipeline architecture across core domains — ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving — making project-level architectural decisions independently and evaluating tradeoffs between freshness, cost, scalability, and simplicity.
- Lead the design and implementation of platform-level improvements: warehouse cost management, compute efficiency, and access control architecture, treating reliability, observability, and cost efficiency as core design constraints rather than afterthoughts.
- Identify and lead technical initiatives that improve the platform's long-term health — proactively surfacing investments (orchestration, CI/CD, data access, developer experience) before they become blockers, and making the case for them.
- Drive large, technically complex projects or multiple concurrent medium-sized initiatives that span teams, taking responsibility for outcomes rather than just execution.
- Lead monitoring and testing strategy for your domain: proactively close observability gaps across the org, build alerting ahead of failures, and serve as the go-to engineer for the hardest production issues.
- Influence technical decisions and architectural direction beyond the Data & Analytics team, partnering directly with EPD stakeholders on infrastructure decisions that affect their roadmaps.
- Actively mentor other data engineers and analytics engineers, reviewing architectural and modeling decisions, and operate as a technical peer to senior engineers across teams.
- Integrate AI meaningfully into data engineering workflows — building tooling and automation that creates leverage for the whole team, not just individual output, and coaching others on effective, validated use.

Here are the skills and experience you'll need to be successful

Must-haves:

- 7+ years of data engineering experience, including a demonstrated track record of owning end-to-end pipeline architecture, not just implementing to spec.
- Deep experience designing orchestration workflows in Apache Airflow, including making architectural tradeoffs across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers.
- Experience working with containerized data infrastructure in production, including deploying services, diagnosing operational issues, and contributing to platform reliability and scalability.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and communicate architectural tradeoffs (freshness vs. cost, scalability vs. simplicity) to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience building or significantly improving CI/CD practices for data pipelines, including automated testing, validation, and deployment.
- A track record of leading incident response and monitoring strategy for a domain, including building alerting and observability ahead of failures rather than reacting to them.
- Experience influencing technical decisions across multiple teams or functions, including partnering with engineering, product, or data science stakeholders outside your immediate team.
- Experience mentoring other data engineers, including reviewing architectural and modeling decisions.

Nice-to-haves:

- Experience with Kubernetes-based data infrastructure
- Experience leading a legacy ETL-to-modern-orchestration migration end-to-end, not just contributing to one.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling such as Datadog at a platform-wide scale.
- Experience building internal tooling or automation (including AI-assisted) that other engineers rely on.

Here's the Pay Range:

At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US Total Target Compensation (TTC) for this position is:

- Zone 1: $210,000 - $255,000 TTC (including $189,000 - $229,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 2: $194,000 - $236,000 TTC (including $175,000 - $212,000 base salary) + equity
- Zone 3: $179,000 - $217,000 TTC (including $161,000 - $195,000 base salary) + equity

This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.

We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.

## About Apartment List

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Apartment List is an AI-powered rental marketplace that matches renters with apartments they’ll love, while providing property managers a complete resident lifecycle platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $179M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Internet Marketplace Platforms (rental housing)
- Target customers: B2C (renters) and B2B (property managers, landlords)
- Mission: “Everyone deserves a home they love” — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)

## Products & Services
- **[Rental Search Platform]**: Free service for renters to search over 7 million apartment units across the U.S., with personalized matchmaking via AI quiz and curated listings. Type: Marketplace / SaaS.
- **[Resident Lifecycle Platform]**: AI-powered tools for leasing, engagement, and retention, including virtual leasing assistant (acquired Diffe.rent). Type: B2B SaaS.
- **[Home Bridge Connect]**: Social impact program providing free housing nights to families in crisis. Type: Non-profit initiative.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $40M; total funding of $179M across 7 rounds — [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Celebrity investors including Lizzo, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Andre Iguodala, Alex Rodriguez, and Daryl Morey — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)
- **Growth Signals**: 41M renters matched to date; 7M apartment units listed; headcount grew 8.8% YoY to 250 employees; acquired Diffe.rent (AI leasing assistant); transitioned to virtual-first company in 2020 — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑powered personalization**: Proprietary matching algorithm creates a “Perfect Match” for each renter, differentiating from standard classified listings.
- **Scale**: Largest free rental search platform in the U.S. with 7M units and 41M matches.
- **Remote‑first talent pool**: Virtual-first model allows hiring across 142 cities, 32 states, and 2 countries, enabling access to diverse talent.
- **Social impact**: Home Bridge program and DEI advocacy build brand loyalty and employee engagement.

## Strategic Focus
- Transitioning from a standard ILS (Internet Listing Service) to a full marketplace model.
- Expanding AI capabilities across the resident lifecycle (leasing, engagement, retention).
- Deepening partnerships with property managers and growing inventory.
- Maintaining a virtual-first culture to attract top talent nationally.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: 100% remote (virtual-first) with optional in‑person meetups. Employees live across 142 cities and 32 states — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Culture**: Named one of Built In’s “100 Best Companies to Work for” in the U.S. (4.6/5 rating). Emphasis on transparency, collaboration, and empowerment — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Perks**: Unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus additional paid time off; comprehensive health coverage; annual wellness week; career development & L&D programs; Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Black, Women, API, Latinx, and Pride communities — [apartmentlist.com](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Open roles include Senior Software Engineer, Data Scientist (GenAI), Staff Data Scientist, and Search Infrastructure Architect — [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list)

## Sources
1. [apartmentlist.com – Careers page](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/careers)
2. [apartmentlist.com – About Us](https://www.apartmentlist.com/about/us)
3. [jobs.gem.com – Apartment List open positions](https://jobs.gem.com/apartment-list)
4. [linkedin.com – Apartment List company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartment-list)
5. [apartmentlist.com – Homepage](https://www.apartmentlist.com/)

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