Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI/ML Ready

SonderMind Inc.; Austin (TX); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

PTO 3 weeks

Holiday schedule

Free therapy coverage

Medical/Dental/Vision

Disability & life insurance

Parental leave 8–16 weeks

401(k) match

Annual company gathering

Company shutdown

Pet insurance

Résumé du poste

SonderMind is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead design, build, and evolution of our data platform that underpins analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes. You’ll own data architecture decisions and mentor teammates in a regulated healthcare environment.

In this role you’ll partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering to create scalable, trusted data models and pipelines, driving reliability, observability, and privacy compliance across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related backend roles.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience building production data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, orchestration tools, and data modeling.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, experimentation, machine learning and AI fine tuning and agentic use cases across product, clinical, and operations teams.
• Own data architecture decisions related to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers, with a focus on scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
• Establish and enforce data quality, observability, and reliability standards, including SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for critical datasets.
• Partner closely with analytics, data science, and product engineering teams to understand data needs and translate them into well-designed, reusable data models and pipelines.
• Lead technical initiatives and drive best practices across the data engineering team, including code quality, testing, documentation, and data contracts.
• Ensure data systems meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements, with a strong understanding of handling sensitive mental health and healthcare data.
• Mentor and support other data engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and helping raise the overall engineering bar.
• Support other responsibilities and ad‑hoc projects as needed based on evolving business and platform needs.

Connaissances

SQL

Python

Data pipeline design

Cross-functional collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Outils

Airflow

dbt

Cloud data warehouses

Description du poste

SonderMind is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead design, build, and evolution of our data platform that underpins analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes. You’ll own data architecture decisions and mentor teammates in a regulated healthcare environment.

In this role you’ll partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering to create scalable, trusted data models and pipelines, driving reliability, observability, and privacy compliance across the organization.