Senior Data Engineer: Scale Data Pipelines & APIs

SiriusXM Radio, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 126,700 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer in Washington, DC to architect and maintain backend data services, data products, and reporting systems at scale. You will collaborate across teams to design scalable pipelines and APIs, enabling insights for AdsWizz and SXM Media.

The role requires 12+ years of software engineering with Python/Java, 7+ years in data pipelines and cloud platforms, and mentoring responsibilities. Competitive salary and incentives are offered.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in Python or Java.
• 7+ years designing, building, and managing data pipelines with Spark, BigQuery, AWS EMR, and GCP.
• 7+ years crafting REST API based microservices on cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• NoSQL knowledge (Druid, DynamoDB, SingleStore, etc.).
• Experience with Kafka/Flink or Pub/Sub messaging.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance, reliable, scalable reporting APIs and data pipelines.
• Lead architecture discussions with ad measurement, revenue and addressability data.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and product to clarify project scopes and requirements.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers and drive production deployments with operations teams.
• Ensure robust data onboarding for AdsWizz and SXM Media services.

Skills

Python/Java

Spark

BigQuery

AWS/GCP

REST APIs

Docker/Kubernetes

Kafka/Flink Pub/Sub

Jira/Confluence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics or similar

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Snowflake

BigQuery

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Job description

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer in Washington, DC to architect and maintain backend data services, data products, and reporting systems at scale. You will collaborate across teams to design scalable pipelines and APIs, enabling insights for AdsWizz and SXM Media.

The role requires 12+ years of software engineering with Python/Java, 7+ years in data pipelines and cloud platforms, and mentoring responsibilities. Competitive salary and incentives are offered.