Senior Data Engineer: AI-Driven Data Modeling & Governance

Engg; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Mail is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to architect enterprise data models and governance practices across large-scale data platforms. You will design AI-ready data layers, feature stores, and scalable pipelines to support real-time ML and personalized product features.

Responsibilities include optimizing distributed architectures on cloud ecosystems, promoting AI-assisted tooling, and mentoring senior engineers while aligning data schemas with business goals and analytics needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Data Eng, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise data models and schemas for multi-tenant use.
• Govern data with privacy by design and data lineage.
• Design AI-ready data layers and feature stores for real-time ML.
• Optimize distributed compute across cloud platforms (GCP/AWS).
• Champion AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate pipelines.
• Provide architectural governance and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Data modeling

AI/ML architecture

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Data governance

SQL / query optimization

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

LLM-driven query engines

BigQuery

Snowflake

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Yahoo Mail is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to architect enterprise data models and governance practices across large-scale data platforms. You will design AI-ready data layers, feature stores, and scalable pipelines to support real-time ML and personalized product features.

Responsibilities include optimizing distributed architectures on cloud ecosystems, promoting AI-assisted tooling, and mentoring senior engineers while aligning data schemas with business goals and analytics needs.