Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Data Stack

Jobtailor; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior data engineer to own the architecture of a scalable data platform. You will lead through design reviews, mentor teammates, and shape ingestion, warehouse, and transformation layers to deliver reliable data at scale.

Focus is on AI-assisted development, governance, observability, and driving the evolution of lakehouse patterns across cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building data platforms and pipelines in production.
• Proven leadership at staff or senior level in data engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud data warehousing and dbt.
• Strong opinions on buy vs build for modern ingestion tooling.
• Design for scale, failure, and change with clear trade-offs.
• Fluent in AI-assisted development; experience with coding agents.
• Reliability-focused, with tests, observability, and boring pipelines.
• Governance-minded with secure access controls and data quality safeguards.
• Mentorship and capability to raise others through example and review.
• Strong SQL and Python, plus VCS, CI/CD, and testing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform architecture spanning ingestion, warehouse, and transformation layers.
• Lead through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship without managing teams.
• Build scalable ingestion across diverse sources and drive tooling choices.
• Develop end-to-end with AI coding agents and set guardrails for quality.
• Establish testing, monitoring, and incident-response to ensure timely, trusted data.
• Strengthen governance, access models, auditability, and data-quality safeguards.
• Lay foundations for agentic analytics and well-governed platform.
• Collaborate with analytics engineers and stakeholders to translate data needs.
• Engineer tooling and internal services beyond the warehouse with Python.
• Lead hands-on POCs on lakehouse patterns and query engines for future adoption.

Skills

Data Platform Architecture

Cloud Data Warehousing

AI-Assisted Development

Data Ingestion Tooling

SQL

Python

Leadership

Mentorship

Systems Thinking

Communication

Tools

Google BigQuery

Dbt

Hevo

Estuary

Claude Code

GCP

AWS

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior data engineer to own the architecture of a scalable data platform. You will lead through design reviews, mentor teammates, and shape ingestion, warehouse, and transformation layers to deliver reliable data at scale.

Focus is on AI-assisted development, governance, observability, and driving the evolution of lakehouse patterns across cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.