Senior Staff Data Engineer: Scale AdTech Analytics

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

Job summary

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to own backend services, data products, and reporting systems at scale. You will design data pipelines, APIs, and analytics platforms, collaborating with AdsWizz and SXM teams to enable insights across the advertising and content ecosystem.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in distributed data processing, cloud data warehouses, and scalable architecture, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and mentorship of engineers.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with Python/Java and modern data platforms.
• 7+ years building data pipelines with Spark, BigQuery, AWS EMR or GCP Analytics.
• 7+ years delivering REST-based microservices on cloud platforms.
• Experience with data warehouses and analytics (Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Strong observability, monitoring and data quality tooling experience.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead projects end-to-end.
• Excellent collaboration across product, operations and cloud teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance data pipelines and APIs.
• Lead architecture discussions for data platforms and measurement systems.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to ship scalable data products.
• Clarify project scope with product teams and provide actionable guidance.
• Drive production deployments with operations and incident management teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Maintain strong data contracts and security considerations.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Python/Java proficiency

Data pipelines

REST microservices

Cloud architecture

Data quality & observability

Mentoring

Systems design

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Mathematics

Tools

Spark

BigQuery

AWS EMR

GCP Analytics

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Flink

Pub/Sub

Jira/Confluence

Job description

SiriusXM Radio, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to own backend services, data products, and reporting systems at scale. You will design data pipelines, APIs, and analytics platforms, collaborating with AdsWizz and SXM teams to enable insights across the advertising and content ecosystem.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in distributed data processing, cloud data warehouses, and scalable architecture, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and mentorship of engineers.