Senior Staff Data Engineer — Scale Data Platform & ML

SonderMind Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO policy (3 weeks minimum)

Holiday schedule following U.S. public

Free therapy coverage

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

SonderMind Inc. in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead our Data Platform team, designing and evolving the data systems that support analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes across the business.

You will own data architecture decisions, enforce data quality and privacy standards in a regulated healthcare environment, and mentor engineers to raise the organization’s data capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering.
• 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, cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools and transformation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline reliability, and system design trade‑offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure powering analytics, ML, 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 and monitoring.
• Partner with analytics, data science, and product engineering teams to translate data needs into reusable data models.
• Lead technical initiatives, drive best practices, and improve code quality, testing, and data contracts.
• Ensure privacy, security, and regulatory compliance for sensitive healthcare data.
• Mentor and guide other data engineers to raise engineering standards.
• Support ad‑hoc projects based on evolving business and platform needs.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud data warehouses

Orchestration tools

Data transformation frameworks

Airflow

Job description

SonderMind Inc. in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to lead our Data Platform team, designing and evolving the data systems that support analytics, experimentation, ML, and clinical outcomes across the business.

You will own data architecture decisions, enforce data quality and privacy standards in a regulated healthcare environment, and mentor engineers to raise the organization’s data capabilities.