Senior Data Engineer-0→1 Data Infra (On-site Santa Monica)

Favorited; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401(k) plan

Comprehensive health insurance

Paid company holidays

Competitive salary

Job summary

favorited seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff to build the data foundation powering Trust & Safety, fraud, and analytics for users, creators, and the platform. This 0-to-1 role sits in Santa Monica and partners with product and engineering to scale data infrastructure for a live-service product.

You will develop reliable pipelines, establish data quality standards, and drive analytics across platform health and performance while maintaining autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data infrastructure, analytics engineering, or a related technical role.
• Experience building 0 → 1 data environments for consumer-facing products or internal teams.
• Experience supporting live-service products with rapidly changing requirements and evolving data.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, data modeling, data infrastructure, and analytics systems.
• Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams.
• Strong ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts for cross-functional partners.
• A product-oriented mindset and curiosity about how users and creators interact with a platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data infrastructure from 0 → 1 to support a growing consumer product.
• Develop data systems supporting Trust & Safety, fraud detection, and analytics for users and creators.
• Create reliable data pipelines and datasets enabling product, engineering, and operations decisions.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business/technical requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Support analytics across user behavior, creator engagement, application performance, and platform health.
• Develop data capabilities to identify suspicious behavior, abuse, fraud, and risks for Trust & Safety.
• Establish strong standards for data quality, reliability, documentation, and accessibility.
• Build systems that evolve with a live-service consumer product and growing data volume.
• Identify opportunities to improve how teams access, understand, and act on data.
• Work autonomously to address high-impact problems from concept to implementation.

Skills

Data engineering

Data infrastructure

Analytics engineering

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Autonomy & ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Product-oriented mindset

Job description

favorited seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff to build the data foundation powering Trust & Safety, fraud, and analytics for users, creators, and the platform. This 0-to-1 role sits in Santa Monica and partners with product and engineering to scale data infrastructure for a live-service product.

You will develop reliable pipelines, establish data quality standards, and drive analytics across platform health and performance while maintaining autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.