Data Engineer

Overview

Data Engineer role at Sandboxx. Sandboxx is the industry-leading platform connecting military recruits with their support system through physical mail, in-app messaging, and a growing online community. We're looking for people with drive and initiative who are excited about making great technology and a positive attitude for our service members.

This is a full-time W2, in-office position based in Middleburg, Virginia. Our office is dog-friendly, and relocation assistance is available.

About Sandboxx

Sandboxx is the industry-leading platform connecting military recruits with their support system through physical mail, in-app messaging, and a rapidly growing online community. Every week, tens of thousands of recruits send letters that forge bonds with family and friends—and drive thousands of new users into our ecosystem.

About the Role

You love digging into data and making it sing—and at Sandboxx, you'll be the person everyone leans on when they need answers. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering and business—partnering closely with Marketing, Product, and our Executive team—to build trusted pipelines, analytics models, and dashboards that power everything from day-to-day operations to board-level reporting.

This is a hands-on role. You'll build and maintain ELT workflows, plug in third-party APIs (CDPs, MMPs, Iterable, partner feeds, etc.), and scale our BI stack with BigQuery, Airflow, and Looker (or Looker Studio).

Sandboxx's growth and operations run on data, and your work will turn messy, complex feeds into clean, trusted insights—so nobody ever has to wait in a queue for the story behind the numbers.

Why We\'re Hiring For This Role Now

• Our data lives in pockets of well-built pipelines—but without integration, we lack a holistic view of our customer journey.
• Teams wrestle with one-off queries and spreadsheets to get the needed numbers, blocking deeper analysis.
• We don't have a unified attribution model or single source of truth, so it\'s hard to tie marketing and product efforts back to real impact.
• Real-time insights are out of reach, forcing stakeholders into reactive mode instead of proactive optimization.
• There\'s no dedicated owner of our BI layer—no one ensuring data consistency, reliability, and accessibility across the company.

What You\'ll Be Responsible For

What We're Looking For

What Success Looks Like

Within the first month , you\'ll deliver a data health report that maps existing sources and prioritizes the top three manual processes for automation.

Within the first 3 months , you\'ll roll out a core dashboard showing acquisition, activation, retention, and LTV with auto-refresh and anomaly alerts, and migrate transformation logic into a CI / CD pipeline with tests that prevent bad data from reaching analysts.

Within the first 6 months , you\'ll automate the monthly finance close report and launch a self-serve data sandbox in Looker for non-engineers.

After 12 months , you\'ll centralize all key data sources into a well-documented, reliable warehouse and enable 80% of dashboards to be built by analysts and power users, while reducing query times by at least 50% through optimizations.

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Sandboxx is an equal opportunity workplace and we accommodate candidates with disabilities. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. Sandboxx does not accept agency resumes.

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