Senior Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Platforms

Otter.ai; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Otter.ai is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for its Data Platform team to build core data foundations powering analytics and decision‑making. You will design foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms enabling self‑serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale.

You will partner with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering to translate business needs into trusted data products and establish governance across production systems.

Qualifications

• Has 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Is highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion.
• Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Is experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt).
• Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads.
• Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
• Has worked in fast-paced tech, AI or SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics
• Design, operate, and scale reliable data pipelines and platforms
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data products
• Influence data collection and logging standards across production systems
• Establish best practices for data modeling, quality, and governance
• Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection
• Provide technical leadership that improves data reliability and data literacy

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Airflow/dbt

Cloud data warehouses

AWS

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Job description

Otter.ai is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for its Data Platform team to build core data foundations powering analytics and decision‑making. You will design foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms enabling self‑serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale.

You will partner with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering to translate business needs into trusted data products and establish governance across production systems.