Senior Data Developer

Vidyard is looking for a Senior Data Developer to join our Data Platform team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development, you'll play a key role in advancing our Company Data System, enhancing data pipelines, and optimizing tools. You'll work with technologies like Druid, Redshift, DBT, Cube, and Metabase, focusing on data collection, modeling, and activation.

Collaborating closely with a dynamic team of developers, data architects, and a product manager, you'll also engage with various stakeholder teams including R&D, Marketing, Finance, and RevOps. This position offers also the chance to use your expertise and collaborative skills to significantly impact product features such as Analytics, Notifications, Data Privacy Compliance (GDPR, etc), and Integrations, fostering a platform and builder experience approach.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada.

The Data Platform team’s mission is to enable all sorts of different teams within the company to make data driven decisions. We do this by building, enhancing, maintaining and supporting platform capabilities within data, tracking, and analytics based infrastructure and features.

While our primary focus is on enabling data driven decisions for teams within Vidyard, we always have Vidyard customers top of mind too. We strive to deliver user value quickly and iteratively, and in a way that drives business health and growth.

Recent projects include rearchitecting our Data Warehouses to simplify and enable better product decision making, and refactoring/improving our video analytics collection.

• Leading key projects enhancing our data pipeline and roadmap while assessing cutting-edge technologies.
• Promoting the adoption of internally developed tools through engaging with users, creating comprehensive guides, and ensuring the tool integrates well with existing systems.
• Ensuring code development and review meet our high standards.
• Participating in our incident management process. This includes addressing incidents, ensuring swift resolutions, and conducting thorough root cause analyses. You will also share key learnings and outcomes during incident reviews to help identify and implement action items that prevent future occurrences.
• Integrating cost-effectiveness and security considerations into our data practices, ensuring our infrastructure is not only scalable and efficient but also secure and economically viable.

• Data Engineering Expertise (5+ Years of Experience): You confidently dive deep into Data Systems (Collect, Ingest, Store, Process, Visualize, and Analyze). If these are your passions, we're looking for you.
• Data Modeling Expertise: You're skilled at designing and implementing data models that are robust, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Execution & Delivery Ownership: You’re able to scope large initiatives into clear milestones, estimate timelines, and keep work visible in Jira/Confluence. You break down complex efforts into incremental deliverables that provide early value and drive projects to completion.
• Communication & Engagement: You exhibit exceptional clarity in communication and presence in both async and live discussions. You help drive technical consensus, highlight trade-offs, and ensure stakeholders stay aligned.
• Collaboration Across Teams: You are able to work closely with R&D and RevOps teams (and beyond) to build a robust Company Data System that aligns with business needs and internal users requirements.
• Quality & Throughput Leader: You consistently contribute high-quality code and reviews, maintaining steady throughput while raising team standards for reliability and performance.
• Lean & Experimental: You take an iterative, value-driven approach, experimenting to find solutions quickly while managing risk.
• Mentor & Role Model: You share knowledge freely, guide teammates, and model best practices in estimation, delivery, and communication.

• Data System tools such as AWS RDS, Kinesis, Fivetran, Redshift, Druid, AWS S3, DBT, Cube, Census, BI Tools (Metabase, Looker)
• Debugging expertise and familiarity with monitoring tools like Rollbar, Datadog
• Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails
• Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Familiarity with data lineage and cataloging solutions (e.g., DataHub, Secoda)
• Strong foundation in monitoring, observability, and scaling distributed data pipelines for reliability and performance
• Comfortable utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g., for code generation, test creation, data exploration, or documentation) to improve efficiency and quality
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling - e.g. Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with modern front-end stacks - e.g. Webpack, Babel, Vue.js, React.js

At Vidyard, success comes from individuals who align with our core values, embrace challenges, and contribute to our high-performing, customer-obsessed culture. You’ll thrive here if you:

• Put Customers First: You’re passionate about solving problems, delivering exceptional value, and ensuring our customers succeed with our products.
• Embrace Innovation: You think creatively, challenge the status quo, and seek new ways to improve and grow—both personally and professionally.
• Value Collaboration: You work effectively across teams, listen actively, and contribute to a supportive and inclusive environment (see our statement of dedication to DEIB here).
• Act with Urgency: You’re motivated, proactive, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly and change is expected.
• Take Ownership: You own your work, take responsibility for outcomes, and are proud of delivering results that drive impact.
• Strive for Excellence: You maintain high standards, are goal-oriented, and continuously push yourself and your teammates to do their best.

At Vidyard, we celebrate the intersection of creativity, ambition, and impact. If you’re ready to contribute to our mission of transforming communication and being part of a team that’s customer-focused, hardworking, and values-driven, Vidyard is the place for you.

At Vidyard, we’re passionate about creating an environment where you can succeed—both personally and professionally. Here’s what you can look forward to:

• Work-life Integration: At Vidyard, we set the bar high, expecting excellence and dedication from every team member. In return, we empower you to integrate work and life seamlessly. Enjoy the freedom of flexible hours and unlimited vacation, paired with programs that support working from anywhere—even while traveling.
• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Start day one with a competitive salary and comprehensive, flexible benefits tailored to support you (RRSP match and stock options included following completion of your probationary period)
• Wellness Your Way: Leverage flexible spending accounts to spend on what matters most.
• Mental Health Support: Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform, plus $1,500 per person per year for mental health services.
• Parental Leave Top-Up: Support when it matters most, with enhanced parental leave benefits.
• Make an Impact: At Vidyard, we believe in creating positive change. Enjoy paid volunteer hours to support the causes you care about and join Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to connect with colleagues, champion inclusion, and drive meaningful impact within Vidyard and the communities we serve.
• Invest in Your Growth: Regular performance reviews, individual development plans and an annual allowance of $1,500, dedicated to your professional development and ongoing learning.
• Your Perfect Workspace: Whether you prefer the comfort of your home, or the energy of our Kitchener, Ontario, collaboration space, you’ll have the flexibility to choose. While we default to remote-first, occasional in-person meetings and events are thoughtfully designed for connection and collaboration.

Come join a team where your best life meets your best work!

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at [email protected]. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.