Senior Staff Data Engineer: Platform & AI Data Infra

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

Benefits offered by this job

PTO (minimum 3 weeks)

Holiday schedule (US holidays)

Free therapy coverage

Medical/Dental/Vision plans

HSA with company contribution

401(k) match

Job summary

SonderMind Inc. is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead data platform design, build, and governance for analytics, ML, and clinical outcomes.

You will own data pipelines, architecture, quality, and security within a regulated healthcare environment, mentoring engineers and enabling faster data‑driven decisions. You’ll collaborate with analytics, science, and product teams to shape reusable data models, ensure reliability, and drive scalable solutions that support business goals and

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 working 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 effective technical solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure for analytics, experimentation, machine learning and AI use cases.
• Own data architecture decisions related to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers.
• Establish and enforce data quality, observability, and reliability standards, including SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
• Partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering teams to translate data needs into well‑designed 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 and design feedback.
• Support other responsibilities and ad‑hoc projects as needed.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Cloud data warehouses

Orchestration tools

Transformation frameworks

Job description

SonderMind Inc. is hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead data platform design, build, and governance for analytics, ML, and clinical outcomes.

You will own data pipelines, architecture, quality, and security within a regulated healthcare environment, mentoring engineers and enabling faster data‑driven decisions. You’ll collaborate with analytics, science, and product teams to shape reusable data models, ensure reliability, and drive scalable solutions that support business goals and