Senior Data Engineer

Oyster HR; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Oyster is seeking a Senior Data Engineer focused on the AI Platform to design and build data pipelines and platform capabilities that empower AI applications across the company. You'll leverage AWS and Snowflake data platforms to enable secure, production-grade AI workflows, enabling LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and tool calling while collaborating with Engineering, Product, IT, and other teams.

This is a fully remote role, with work from anywhere in UTC-6 to UTC+3, and the opportunity to

Job description

One platform, a whole world of opportunityThe best jobs have always clustered in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities. But talent is everywhere. Oyster set out to close that gap - building a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere.

We're proof that a high-performing culture doesn't need an office. Distributed across 60+ countries since 2020, we've built something the industry keeps noticing:Ranked #10 of 250 on TIME and Statista's 2026 list of America's Top WorkTech Companies Named one of America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 by NewsweekA G2 Spring 2026 Leader across Employer of Record, Global Employment, Multi-country Payroll, and HR ComplianceThe only B Corp-certified global employment platform ~ independently verified since 2023Two of those rankings measured our business impact from the outside. One measured how our own people feel about working here. They landed in the same place ~ because at Oyster, culture and performance aren't separate conversations. They're the same one.And we're just getting started.

The Role

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within UTC-6 to UTC+3.

Oyster’s Data Engineering team is building the foundational AI platform layer that will enable teams across Oyster to develop, deploy, and operate secure, production-grade AI capabilities. As a Senior Data Engineer focused on AI Platform, you’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, platform engineering, and applied AI. You’ll build the data pipelines, services, integrations, and reusable platform capabilities that power AI use cases across Oyster.

You’ll leverage Oyster’s existing AWS and Snowflake data platform to make enterprise data accessible, reliable, secure, and useful for AI, supporting capabilities such as LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, AI agents, tool calling, and AI workflows.

This is not a traditional data engineering role focused primarily on analytics pipelines or reporting. You’ll help define and build the data and platform foundations that let AI systems move from experimentation to reliable production, working closely with Engineering, Product, IT, and other teams across Oyster.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines and platform capabilities that support AI applications, knowledge systems, and AI workflows.
• Build and maintain data and knowledge pipelines for ingestion, transformation, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, vector search, metadata, and knowledge management.
• Develop secure, reusable ways for AI systems to access enterprise data and systems using APIs, MCP, tool calling, and similar patterns.
• Build reusable services, libraries, frameworks, and dev