About Courtyard

Courtyard.io is the fastest-growing collectibles startup, ever. We are revolutionizing the world of collectibles trading by enabling instant liquidity and delivering a high-velocity, immersive experience. From trading cards to comics, we're redefining how people discover, collect, and unlock value.

Courtyard is not just another marketplace. All assets are securely vaulted and fully insured, giving collectors peace of mind alongside unmatched speed and simplicity. Whether you're investing, discovering, or curating your dream collection, we've built a platform that's trusted, simple, and built for speed.

And we're just getting started. We're a remote-first company hiring across all functions to push the boundaries of what's possible in collectibles and digital ownership.

Job Summary

Courtyard is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data foundation our pricing runs on. We price and buy back assets in real time off a fragmented external market, and turning that into something a model can safely consume is the data problem here. You'll be the senior-most data engineering voice in a lean data org — owning architecture and standards, not working a ticket queue.

What You'll Do

Own external market data ingestion end to end — acquisition, normalization, and delivery into the warehouse
Own the canonical item model and the entity resolution that maps messy inbound records onto it
Build quality and monitoring that catches gaps and degradation before a stakeholder notices
Own the warehouse layer: dbt modeling, tests, and documentation across marketplace, vault, payments, and event data
Set schema contracts with product engineering so upstream changes break the build, not the metrics
Serve pricing and ML with reliable training and feature tables
Set the engineering bar for the data org and level up DS on production-path work

What We're Looking For

5+ years in data engineering with real production pipeline ownership, at senior or staff scope
Experience taming third-party data at volume — unstable sources, schema drift, no advance notice
Entity resolution in practice, including the judgment to know when a confident match is wrong
Deep SQL and Python; production dbt with tests and incremental models you actually maintained
Strong dimensional modeling — SCD Type 2, incremental loads, backfills, late-arriving data
Cloud warehouse depth. We run BigQuery and GCP; Redshift, and dbt
Marketplace or e-commerce data models: orders, payments, refunds, promos, attribution
Broad enough to navigate backend systems and pair with AI on the hard parts
Bonus: pricing or valuation systems, LLM-assisted extraction, a real interest in collectibles

What You'll Get In Return

A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation
Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value
Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage
Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development
Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment
401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future
$100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand
Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

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