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PetSafe Brands, formerly known as Radio Systems Corporation, is headquartered in Knoxville, TN. It has been named "The Marble City" and "Scruffy City", names we have embraced for our unique charm. We are the home of 1982 World's Fair and we boast of 21 craft breweries around the city. If you like to hike or camp, visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Take your pick of outdoor activities from walking, tubing, running, or biking in our Urban Wilderness. Knox County has an amazing public-school system, no state income tax, low property taxes and cost of living. We host Music and Shakespeare on the Square as well as Family Movie Nights on the Square during the summer months in downtown Knoxville.

PetSafe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands: Pet Safe® Brand, Sport DOG® Brand, Invisible Fence® Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. Pet Safe® Brand makes every product from leashes and harnesses to water fountains and litter boxes. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the "Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady" with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine. We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community's employer of choice as we all live our purpose: We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe.

A Data Engineer III leads the design and development of complex, scalable data solutions that support strategic business goals. They ensure data quality, reliability, and security through robust architecture, error handling, and compliance practices. This role builds and maintains efficient data pipelines using tools like SQL, Python, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, DBT, and fivetran, enabling timely and accurate data delivery. They mentor team members, promote engineering best practices, and collaborate across functions to improve processes and unlock business value. Additionally, they proactively identify risks, drive automation and performance improvements, and provide technical leadership in high-ambiguity environments.

Drives technical direction for a team. Delivers large, complex features across multiple systems and influences team standards. Has a minimum of 5 years of experience in a Data Engineer role.

• Lead design and development of significant projects (multi-team dependencies).

• Set and enforce quality, security, and reliability standards.

• Mentor others and conduct architecture reviews.

• Drive automation, observability, and DevOps improvements.

• Identify scaling, performance, and cost optimization opportunities.

• Designs components that integrate across domains (e.g., API, data, infra).

• Operate effectively with high ambiguity and business context.

• Deep expertise in one or more technical areas.

• Strong architectural thinking; anticipates downstream impacts.

• Balances engineering ideals with business priorities.

• Proactively identifies and unblocks team or project risks.

• Identify and proactively explore new technologies and showcases them

• Develop team expertise in multiple business domains, and is the initial point of contact for the business stakeholders

• Help define and evolve data governance frameworks.

• Lead initiatives around data lineage, privacy, and compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

• Partner with legal, security, and business teams to align governance with enterprise strategy.

• Drive adoption of governance tools and practices across teams.

Working for PetSafe Brands definitely has its benefits. We offer a collaborative and creative team-oriented work environment where we encourage you to take risks to learn and grow! We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match. In addition we offer a rich wellness program which includes an onsite health clinic, workout facility and of course, we encourage you to bring your dog to work, which is our whole reason for what we do!

PetSafe Brands is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunity for all teammates and fostering a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At PetSafe Brand, our teammates are our greatest strength. We strive to build a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve by hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and talent. We recruit and reward teammates based on capability and performance and together we are building a culture that welcomes all dimensions of an individual's identity including race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, educational background, national origin or ancestry, religion, veteran status, or physical ability. We embrace these differences and the unique contributions each teammate brings not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. While we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging, we recognize that we still have more work to do and a lot more to learn.