Senior Backend Software Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

The Role You’ll Play: 

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform Engineer team, you’ll shape the backbone of our data strategy—designing scalable pipelines, championing governance, and enabling AI-ready infrastructure. You’ll lead cross-functional projects that fuel analytics, automation, and decision-making across the Playlist ecosystem. Your work will directly empower our teams to create personalized, real-world experiences for millions of users.

• Architect and optimize cloud-native data warehouse solutions that power real-time decisions and long-term strategy


• Design and scale dbt models across bronze/silver layers with a focus on data contracts, observability, and semantic consistency


• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Fivetran, Snowpipe, and CDC to support streaming and batch workloads


• Lead the design of infrastructure-as-code deployments with Pulumi or Terraform, driving CI/CD maturity and cost-efficient operations


• Elevate data quality with comprehensive monitoring, anomaly detection, and validation frameworks


• Collaborate across squads to align data contracts, expand shared data marts, and support machine learning enablement


• Champion data governance, ensuring privacy and compliance through PII tagging, lineage, and role-based access controls


• Drive continuous platform improvement through systematic tech debt remediation and modernization initiatives

Experience You Bring:  

• Strong expertise in data engineering, software engineering, platform architecture, or modern data warehousing


• Deep expertise in Snowflake (Snowpark, Streams, Tasks, Data Sharing) and strong SQL/dbt fluency


• Proficient in Python for automation, transformation logic, and data platform development


• Experience implementing observability standards, anomaly detection, and data quality validation


• Skilled in managing complex, multi-squad initiatives with a clear track record of driving scalable outcomes


• Hands-on knowledge of Airflow, Atlan, and infrastructure as code (Pulumi or Terraform)


• A strong grasp of data modeling principles and architecture patterns like star schema and bronze/silver/gold layering


• Comfortable mentoring engineers, influencing technical roadmaps, and advocating for best practices