Senior Staff Data Engineer: Lead Scalable Data Pipelines

SiriusXM Radio, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 126,700 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and build high‑performance reporting APIs and scalable data pipelines. You will lead architecture discussions, work with ad measurement and revenue data, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver robust analytics products.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to product scope, and ensure reliable production deployments with strong ownership and technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in Python or Java (JDK17+).
• 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 stack.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance, reliable, scalable reporting APIs and data pipelines.
• Lead high-level architecture discussions with ad measurement, revenue and addressability data.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams in a distributed development process.
• Clarify project scope with the Product team and provide actionable feedback.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers to improve technical excellence.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Data pipelines design

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Python/Java

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Spark

BigQuery

AWS EMR

GCP Cloud Analytics

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and build high‑performance reporting APIs and scalable data pipelines. You will lead architecture discussions, work with ad measurement and revenue data, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver robust analytics products.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to product scope, and ensure reliable production deployments with strong ownership and technical leadership.