Staff Data Engineer
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Summary
Staff Data Engineer owning the technical direction and long-term architecture of the data platform at an AI-driven company. You'll build and scale production data pipelines, mentor senior engineers, and support analytics and AI initiatives, working hands-on with Python, SQL, and dbt.
Overview
In this role you will shape the data platform behind an AI-driven technology company, owning long-term architecture and high-impact technical decisions. You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and agentic workflows to build scalable foundations for analytics and AI. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll mentor engineers, influence engineering strategy across teams, and balance innovation with reliability to support data-led decisions.
Responsibilities- Own the technical direction of the data platform and long-term architecture
- Build and scale production data platforms and modern data pipelines
- Influence engineering strategy across teams and lead complex technical initiatives
- Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics and AI initiatives
- Staff-level experience with production data platforms
- Strong expertise in data architecture, distributed systems and multi-tenant environments
- Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, dbt and modern data pipelines
- Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders
- Passion for solving hard problems, balancing innovation with reliability, and building for the long term
- leadership without formal authority
- stakeholder influence
- problem solving
- Python
- SQL
- dbt