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Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

212k – 265kNew York, NYSan Francisco, CASeattle, WAHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

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 role

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
SnowflakeAWSTerraformPythonSQLAirflowDockerGitHub ActionsdbtSpark
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