Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer
Staff-level Data Infrastructure Engineer to architect and evolve the data platform (Snowflake, ingestion, orchestration, CI/CD, AWS infra) serving analytics, product, and ML teams. Requires 10+ years building scalable data platforms and proven technical leadership.
About the job
Experience we're seeking
- 10+ years as a Data Platform Engineer, Software/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in data, or Data Engineer in a high-code, high-scale environment
- Track record of driving technical strategy and cross-functional alignment, including defining roadmaps for a data platform or infrastructure domain
- Deep expertise building full-stack data platforms: data warehousing, ingestion pipelines, orchestration, monitoring and alerting, CI/CD, developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations
- Architectural fluency in warehouse design patterns, performance tuning, cost management, and permissions strategies on MPP analytics databases (Snowflake strongly preferred; Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift also relevant)
- Experience leading technical initiatives end-to-end across multiple teams and codifying engineering standards
- Proficiency designing and operating cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS preferred) using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK)
- Strong Python engineering skills; solid SQL foundations; comfort with distributed systems
- Experience maintaining and scaling pipeline orchestration infrastructure (Airflow/Astronomer preferred)
- Mentorship track record growing junior and mid-level engineers
Bonus points for
- Agentic Data Engineering (automating data infrastructure tasks, auditing permissions, optimized CI)
- APM and observability tooling (DataDog, New Relic) and data quality/observability frameworks
- ETL/ELT best practices at scale
- Data security and compliance in regulated environments, especially PHI
- Greenfield platform development in a high-growth startup
- Docker, GitHub Actions, dbt, Spark
- Build vs. buy decision-making and vendor evaluation
Compensation and Benefits
The expected base pay range for this position is $212,000 - $265,000. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant.
Benefits offered include:
- Equity compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development
Skills
Snowflake, AWS, Terraform, Python, SQL, Airflow, Docker, GitHub Actions, dbt, Spark
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