Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Backend

Mia Labs, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Health insurance

Hybrid schedule (3 days/week in Austin

Free lunches

Parking stipend

Job summary

Mia Labs, Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to own backend Python systems and AI-powered data workflows. You will build scalable data services, pipelines, and observability with a strong focus on production-grade reliability.

You will collaborate with product, finance, and leadership to turn ambiguous asks into data products, mentoring peers and advancing the data stack with Dagster/dbt, BigQuery/Snowflake, and FastAPI. Hybrid schedule available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools such as Dagster, dbt, and a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar).
• Strong SQL and data modeling exposure (dimensional modeling, incremental patterns, data quality testing).
• Experience operating in cloud environments (Azure, GCP, or AWS) with production-grade practices: CI/CD, observability, secrets management.
• Practical experience integrating AI/LLM tooling into real workflows — APIs, prompt iteration, eval-minded development, or batch processing at scale.
• Ability to move between data engineering and general backend engineering with minimal friction.
• Strong communication and ownership; comfortable working directly with senior cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Python for data services, pipelines, and scheduled jobs.
• Design and ship data orchestration assets, jobs, and sensors using modern workflow tooling.
• Develop and optimize data models across staging, dimensional, fact, and mart layers.
• Improve data quality, observability, and reliability for downstream analytics and reporting.
• Deliver dealer and group-level reporting foundations with reusable, well-tested metrics.
• Build AI-enabled data workflows, including batch extraction pipelines, evaluation loops, and cost-aware LLM integration patterns.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

AI/LLM tooling

Data orchestration

FastAPI

Communication

Tools

Dagster

dbt

BigQuery

Snowflake

Looker/BI

Job description

Mia Labs, Inc. in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to own backend Python systems and AI-powered data workflows. You will build scalable data services, pipelines, and observability with a strong focus on production-grade reliability.

You will collaborate with product, finance, and leadership to turn ambiguous asks into data products, mentoring peers and advancing the data stack with Dagster/dbt, BigQuery/Snowflake, and FastAPI. Hybrid schedule available.