Hybrid Senior Data Engineer — Snowflake & Python Scale

Weight Watchers; United States; Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Weight Watchers in the United States is seeking a seasoned Senior Data Engineer to drive scale, performance, and actionability within our data ecosystem. You will strengthen and scale our Python and Snowflake-based infrastructure to support dynamic analytics and our transition toward automated, self-service data workflows.

This role requires deep Python expertise, SQL mastery, and experience building resilient ELT pipelines, modern CI/CD, and orchestration tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, with at least 2+ years in distributed, large-scale cloud data warehouses.
• Snowflake optimization and cost-governance experience; Cortex/MCP is a plus.
• Advanced Software Engineering with Python; modular, testable code.
• Expert-level SQL and data warehousing methodologies for scalable analytics layers.
• CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions, Argo CD) to drive velocity and stability.
• Orchestration with Prefect or Airflow for complex pipelines and dependencies.
• Observability with Datadog to maximize uptime and reduce alert fatigue.
• Operational maturity: production pipelines uptime, data quality, SLAs.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Data Enablement: develop Looker views and self-service capabilities to reduce reporting bottlenecks.
• Pipeline Architecture: design, build, and scale resilient ELT pipelines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with Finance, Product, and Analytics to solve right problems.
• Data Modeling: build analytics schemas (Star Schemas) for user-friendly datasets.
• End-to-End Ownership: lead projects from inception to production with data integrity in mind.
• Operational Excellence: monitor production health with Datadog and other tools to ensure reliability.
• Technical Leadership: conduct code reviews and promote best practices.

Skills

Python

Snowflake

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD

Airflow/Prefect

Datadog

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Prefect

Airflow

Job description

Weight Watchers in the United States is seeking a seasoned Senior Data Engineer to drive scale, performance, and actionability within our data ecosystem. You will strengthen and scale our Python and Snowflake-based infrastructure to support dynamic analytics and our transition toward automated, self-service data workflows.

This role requires deep Python expertise, SQL mastery, and experience building resilient ELT pipelines, modern CI/CD, and orchestration tools.