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# Staff Data Engineer at Checkr - Chile

- **Company:** Checkr - Chile
- **Location:** Santiago Región Metropolitana, Chile
- **Compensation:** CLP 665k–CLP 782k
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chile/jobs/8082776

## Job description

## About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on [Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List](https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/) and is a Y Combinator 2024 [Breakthrough Company](https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024).

As a Staff Data Engineer on the People Data team, you'll help build and evolve the centralized platform that powers every Checkr product. This platform stores and serves the identity and people records that underpin Checkr's Workforce, Mortgage, Tenant, Trust, and Personal products, making it foundational to the company's AI-powered verification platform and every high-stakes decision our customers make.

In this role, you'll own the core services, data pipelines, and architecture that keep this platform scalable, reliable, and ready for the next generation of Checkr products. You'll solve complex distributed systems and data engineering challenges while influencing the technical direction of one of the company's most critical platforms.

What you´ll do:

- Architect, design, lead, and build an end-to-end, performant, reliable, scalable data platform.
- Work as an independent contributor: solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal oversight and strong ownership.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers to deliver complex, next-generation features.
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset.  Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship features that solve real customer problems.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders to design and architect new features.
- Experimentation mindset: autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP.
- Quality mindset: you treat quality as a non-negotiable part of your software deliverables.
- Analytical mindset: instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach.
- Monitor, triage, and resolve production issues for the team's services.
- Create and maintain data pipelines and foundational datasets to support product and business needs.

What You Bring:

- 10+ years designing, implementing, and delivering highly scalable, performant data platforms.
- Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines using ETL/ELT, batch, and stream processing.
- Expert-level proficiency in PySpark, Python, and SQL.
- Expertise in data modeling, relational databases, and NoSQL data stores (e.g., MongoDB).
- Experience with big data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Iceberg, data lakes, and the AWS stack (EKS, EMR, Serverless, Glue, Athena, S3, etc.).
- Knowledge of security best practices and data privacy concerns.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Nice to have: experience or knowledge of data processing platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake.
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see[our website](https://checkr.com/company/careers).

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile) $66.496.000—$78.230.000 CLP

## What We Offer

- A collaborative and fast-moving environment
- Be part of an international company based in the United States
- $3,000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

## Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the [San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance](http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Art.%2049%20Official%20Notice%20to%20print%202017.pdf).

*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., name@checkr.com or name@ext.checkr.com).

## About Checkr - Chile

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Checkr builds an AI-powered verification platform that enables safe and fair background checks and identity decisions for hiring, housing, and other high-stakes contexts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E; $5B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with hub offices in Denver, Nashville, and Santiago, Chile)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (multiple co-founders; often associated with Y Combinator alumni)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Background screening, identity verification, HR technology, trust & safety
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprises and SMBs (140,000+ customers including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Amazon, Anthropic)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Power safe and fair decisions” and “we’ve pioneered fair chance hiring for over a decade”

## Products & Services
- **Checkr Background Checks**: AI-driven criminal record, education, employment, and identity verification; combines automation with human experts for accuracy and compliance.
- **Checkr Verify**: Identity verification solution used for gig economy, rentals, and other on-demand services.
- **Checkr Platform/API**: Programmatic access for high-volume customers to integrate background checks into their own workflows.
- **Checkr for Good**: Program offering discounted or pro bono screenings for nonprofits and social enterprises.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $5B (Series E, highly profitable per company careers page)
- **Key Metric**: $500M+ annual revenue; 140,000+ customers; 100M+ people verified per year
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (2024 Breakthrough Company), Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list; investors include prominent VCs (specific names not listed in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Highly profitable with $500M+ revenue; expanding internationally with engineering hub in Santiago, Chile; recognized on Forbes Cloud 100; strong offer acceptance rate (81%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first verification**: Proprietary AI models combined with human review to deliver speed (97% of customers report faster turnaround than previous vendor) and accuracy.
- **Fair chance hiring focus**: Deep expertise in compliance with fair chance ordinances (e.g., San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance) and a mission-driven approach that differentiates from traditional background check vendors.
- **Scale and trust**: Trusted by some of the largest platforms (Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Amazon) and used for 100M+ verifications annually.
- **Data platform moat**: Builds and operates data pipelines that extract data from hundreds of government and third-party sources, creating a defensible infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **International expansion**: Establishing engineering hubs in Santiago, Chile and other locations to tap global talent and support 24/7 operations.
- **Platform evolution**: Continuing to invest in AI and data acquisition platforms to improve accuracy, speed, and compliance for high-stakes decisions.
- **Product diversification**: Expanding beyond background checks into identity verification and other trust & safety use cases (e.g., housing, rideshare, childcare).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, problem-solving environment; “If you want a comfortable seat, you’re in the wrong place” – emphasizes ownership and impact.
- **Hybrid/Remote**: Hybrid model with 3+ days per week in office at hub locations (San Francisco, Denver, Nashville, Santiago). In Santiago, office perks include lunch five times a week, commuter stipend, snacks.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% covered medical, dental, vision for employees and dependents
  - $3,000/year learning stipend
  - 1-month paid sabbatical every 3 years
  - Equity ownership for all full-time employees
  - 401(k) with company match
  - Generous parental leave and family planning support
  - Mental health coaching
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on Python, distributed systems, and data pipelines; on-call rotations; mentorship opportunities; AI-first mindset encouraged.
- **Recognition**: Three years on Built In’s Best Places to Work; Forbes Cloud 100 2025.

## Sources
1. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers) – Careers page with company overview, benefits, and mission
2. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers/open-careers) – Open positions listing (Santiago, Chile)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chile/jobs/7968099) – Senior Software Engineer job posting for Santiago (details on salary, responsibilities, culture)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkr-com) – LinkedIn company page (active job postings, operations)

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