Senior Data Engineer - AI-Driven Platform & Pipelines

Babylist; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10 paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Flexible benefits

Health & wellness

Babylist store discount

Job summary

Babylist is seeking a senior Data Engineer who will own the architecture of scalable data systems. You will build AI-enabled, automated scaffolding for data pipelines and ML workflows, collaborating with analytics engineers, data scientists, and product teams to support Babylist’s growing platform.

Join a cross-functional team focused on reliability, performance, and AI-driven decision making for a $750M+ ecommerce business, shaping how data infrastructure evolves across ingestion to analytics.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building systems that hold up at scale.
• Deeply fluent in Python with production-grade data engineering experience.
• Proficient with Airflow and dbt; strong ETL and data modeling principles.
• Platform-minded; design reusable automation for repetitive data work.
• Familiar with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data warehouses.
• Experience building production AI/LLM systems (RAG pipelines, agentic workflows).

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and systems that make data engineering scalable and automated.
• Build and scale pipelines for ingestion into Snowflake for a 750M+ business.
• Develop agentic data engineering systems for generation, testing, and maintenance.
• Develop and maintain ML pipelines to operationalize models.
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams across data infra.

Skills

Python

AWS

AI/LLM

Airflow

dbt

Data Modeling

ETL

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Babylist is seeking a senior Data Engineer who will own the architecture of scalable data systems. You will build AI-enabled, automated scaffolding for data pipelines and ML workflows, collaborating with analytics engineers, data scientists, and product teams to support Babylist’s growing platform.

Join a cross-functional team focused on reliability, performance, and AI-driven decision making for a $750M+ ecommerce business, shaping how data infrastructure evolves across ingestion to analytics.