Senior Staff Data Engineer - AI-Driven Platform Leader

SonderMind Inc.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free therapy coverage

3 weeks PTO minimum

401(k) match

HSAs with company contribution

Annual company gathering

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage (short & long)

Life & AD&D

Dental, Vision, Medical coverage

Holiday schedule

Stock options or equity (if offered)

Job summary

SonderMind in the United States is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead our data platform, designing and evolving data systems that power analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes across the business.

You will own data architecture, establish best practices, ensure privacy and security in a regulated healthcare environment, mentor teammates, and partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering to deliver trusted data at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one general‑purpose programming language (Python strongly preferred).
• Hands‑on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with modern data platforms, including cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools, and transformation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline reliability, and system design trade‑offs.
• Proven ability to work cross‑functionally and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure powering analytics, experimentation, machine learning and AI use cases.
• 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.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Cloud data warehouses

Orchestration tools

Data modeling

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Cloud platforms

Job description

SonderMind in the United States is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead our data platform, designing and evolving data systems that power analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes across the business.

You will own data architecture, establish best practices, ensure privacy and security in a regulated healthcare environment, mentor teammates, and partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering to deliver trusted data at scale.