Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Data Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of product telemetry, customer operations, and security-aware infrastructure. NinjaOne operates a cloud-delivered endpoint management platform, which typically generates high-volume, high-cardinality data that needs careful modeling to be useful across the business. The listing also references a FedRAMP-authorized environment, signaling work where governance and data handling discipline matter alongside delivery.
For a long-term SaaS data career, the remit spans multiple layers that commonly define mature SaaS analytics: pipeline design, warehouse patterns, workflow orchestration, and surfacing metrics through dashboards. Experience moving from raw event streams and operational sources into trusted datasets is broadly transferable across subscription businesses, especially where decisions depend on reliable reporting and repeatable definitions rather than one-off analyses.
The role is best suited to practitioners who enjoy building durable systems and partnering with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to translate questions into data products. It will appeal to candidates who prefer ownership over end-to-end data flow, from ingestion and performance tuning to monitoring and access controls, and who are comfortable working within compliance-influenced constraints in a remote-first setup.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role
At NinjaOne, we’re looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join our team and help drive the future of our data infrastructure. You’ll play a critical role in building, maintaining, and scaling our systems to ensure smooth data flow, accuracy, and security across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape how we leverage data to fuel growth, optimize products, and drive business decisions.
Location - We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, *IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.
We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can’t hurt: NinjaOne is built onJava, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client-server architecture will help you.
What You’ll be Doing
- Data Pipeline Development: Design and implement scalable data pipelines that move and transform large volumes of data from multiple sources to central data warehouses, transforming data to enable business reporting and advanced analytics.
- Database Management: Manage and optimize the performance of relational databases, ensuring data availability, reliability, and consistency.
- Automation & Optimization: Automate and optimize data workflows to reduce manual processes and improve efficiency in data collection, storage, and processing.
- Monitoring & Maintenance: Ensure the integrity and security of data across systems, monitor performance, and troubleshoot any issues that arise within the data pipeline.
- Data Visualization: Build dashboards and reports in Tableau and Databricks to expose key data points and trends to business stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to gather requirements, understand data needs, and provide solutions that support data-driven decision-making.
- Other duties as needed.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent work experience preferred.
- 3+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on data engineering and data science.
- Experience in building data pipelines and managing large-scale data systems using technologies like SQL and Python
- Proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with tools like Airflow, Kafka or dbtfor orchestrating data workflows.
- Experience with both relational databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases likeMongoDB, Cassandra.
- Experience with data warehousing concepts and tools such asRedshift, BigQuery, Snowflake.
About Us
NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT to deliver visibility, security, and control over all endpoints for more than 20,000 customers. The NinjaOne automated endpoint management platform is proven to increase productivity, reduce security risk, and lower costs for IT teams and managed service providers. NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and provides free and unlimited onboarding, training, and support. NinjaOne is #1 on G2 in endpoint management, patch management, remote monitoring and management, and mobile device management.
What You’ll Love
We are a collaborative, kind, and curious community.
We honor your flexibility needs with full-time work that is hybrid remote.
We have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.
We help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.
We prioritize your work-life balance with our unlimited PTO.
We reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.
Additional Information
This position isNOTeligible for Visa sponsorship.Due to federal government security requirements associated with our FedRAMP-authorized environment, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
*Due to operational policies, NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or are willing to self-relocate.
Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to location, market demands, experience, job-related knowledge, and skills. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage and PTO. For roles based in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, or Washington the base salary hiring range for this position is $90,000 to $170,000 per year.
For roles based in New York, the base salary hiring range for this position is $90,000 to $170,000 per year.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment.
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