Staff Data Engineer

Myfitnesspal; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Parental planning

Mental health benefits

Annual bonus

401(k) plan and match

Paid time off

Job summary

MyFitnessPal is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You’ll design, build, and maintain high-throughput data services and pipelines using Python, Airflow, and Snowflake, enabling reliable analytics and product insights at scale.

The role emphasizes DataOps practices, data modeling, CI/CD, testing, and governance, with mentorship of engineers and collaboration across product and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in engineering roles, including 3–5+ years in data engineering at senior level
• Extensive experience with Snowflake or similar data stores
• Experience with distributed and non-distributed data stores (RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, S3)
• Advanced SQL and performance tuning for large-scale datasets
• Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Proficient in Python and high-throughput service design
• Experience with CDC and distributed event streaming (Kafka)
• Familiarity with API design patterns (REST, SOAP) and DataOps practices
• Observability, monitoring, and alerting implementations
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Experience driving AI-assisted development workflows
• Ability to define engineering standards and cost-conscious ownership

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data services and pipelines
• Architect and evolve core platform components for scalable pipelines
• Collaborate on DataOps practices, CI/CD, testing, and validation
• Define and evangelize data engineering standards across the org
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural alignment
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning infra, data services, and observability
• Collaborate with product and engineering to solve complex data challenges
• Develop secure, governed data systems with RBAC and lifecycle management

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Kubernetes

Kafka

GitHub

Elasticsearch

Job description

At MyFitnessPal, we believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide tools, resources and support to enable users to reach their health goals.

We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join the MyFitnessPal Data Engineering team. Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our MyFitnessPal Engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users with your expertise in the backend systems that drive the MyFitnessPal ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.

About the team:

MyFitnessPal encourages innovation and adoption of the latest technologies available to deliver an amazing experience for our members. Our diverse team of brilliant technologists builds and maintains native mobile applications, a web application, the world’s largest nutrition database, constantly evolving data science and AI/ML assets, the backend infrastructure and data platform required to support these applications and databases, as well as the business systems and data required to manage an awesome company. Technologies and languages we work with include: Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Git Hub, PlanetScale, Elasticsearch, Scala, Python, SQL, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, Okta and Claude Code. We care more about your general engineering skills and technical leadership than your knowledge of a specific language and or framework.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, event-driven data services and orchestration pipelines using Python, Airflow, and Snowflake, enabling reliable analytics and product insights at scale
• Architect and evolve core platform components to ensure scalable, secure, and extensible data pipelines to support the organization, including updating ingestion patterns (CDC, Kafka event streaming) to modernize legacy pipelines.
• Collaborate with team on development and adoption of DataOps best practices — data modeling, CI/CD, unit testing, and validation frameworks — ensuring quality and consistency across the data platform
• Define and evangelize data engineering standards and best practices for the broader organization, reviewing work for other engineers and providing implementation guidance
• Further our team's agentic development maturity — increasing the volume of recurring engineering work handled by agents, while prioritizing guardrails and safe AI usage as the foundation of that progress, and bringing the rest of the team along through hands-on collaboration and fostering a culture of learning
• Help shape our data governance strategy, including how tools and AI assistants access and query our data safely and consistently
• Own cost efficiency and stewardship for Snowflake and pipeline infrastructure, balancing performance and reliability against spend
• Mentor data engineers and data analytics engineers, fostering technical growth and driving alignment on architectural patterns, tooling, and resilient system design
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that span infrastructure, data services, and observability, to ensure operational excellence
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to proactively identify and solve complex user-facing and system-level challenges across data domains
• Develop and maintain secure, compliant, and well-governed data systems, leveraging role-based access controls and data lifecycle management in alignment with legal, security, and data governance needs

Qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 8 -12+ years in engineering roles, including 3 - 5+ years in data engineering at senior / architect / staff level working end-to-end data platforms
• Extensive experience in Snowflake or similar data store
• Experience with a variety of distributed and non-distributed, structured and unstructured data stores (e.g. RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, S3)
• Advanced SQL skills, including experience writing and optimizing complex queries against large-scale, high-cardinality datasets
• Extensive experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tool
• Experience writing high throughput services in Python
• Experience with high-volume, event-driven architecture, including CDC (change-data-capture) and distributed event streaming (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with a variety of API design patterns ( REST, SOAP, etc)
• Strong data ops skills including modeling, CI/CD pipelines, source control, unit testing frameworks, and data validation frameworks
• Experience implementing observability via monitoring and alerting
• Strong familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience designing or driving adoption of agentic or AI-assisted development workflows (e.g. structured specs consumed by agents, automated test generation, agent-driven PR pipelines, skill development, AI code review)
• Demonstrated experience defining engineering standards or best practices adopted across a team or organization, and cost-conscious ownership of infrastructure/systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with modular modeling via dbt, including deploying semantic layer best practices
• Experience with dataset versioning and CI enforcement
• Experience with scaling and resilience in data pipelines
• Experience in high velocity experimentation organizations
• Experience with data cataloging/governance tools (e.g. Secoda, Snowflake Horizon) and metadata stewardship programs
• Experience building or evaluating AI-assisted internal tools with deterministic, code-level business-rule enforcement (vs. purely prompt-based vendor AI tools)
• Experience with multi-agent orchestration or coordination patterns
• Be Kind and Care — build with empathy; assume positive intent; support teammates and members.
• Live Good Health — champion healthy habits and balance in how we work and what we ship.
• Be Data-Inspired — ground decisions in research and data; measure what matters.
• Champion Change — lean into ambiguity; iterate, learn, and improve continuously.
• Leave it Better than You Found It — raise quality, clarify systems, and document as you go.
• Make It Happen — bias to action; deliver impact with craft and accountability.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $170,000 - $230,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.

Exciting Full-Time Employee Benefits, Perks and Culture

Face-to-Face Connections: We value personal connections. Enjoy opportunities to meet and connect with your team members in person to help forge meaningful relationships that extend beyond the virtual realm. Teams meet as often as needed and all of MyFitnessPal gathers annually.

Flexibility At Its Best: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve. Enjoy a flexible time-off policy with our Responsible Time Off benefit.

Give Back: Use your volunteer days off to support what matters most to you. Each full time teammate receives 2 days per calendar year to give back to their community through service.

Mentorship Program: Take control of your career through our mentorship program where, if you’d like, you will be matched with a teammate who can help you scale your skills and propel your growth.

Family-Friendly Support: Embrace the journey with confidence and care. Enjoy our paid maternity and paternity leave, to provide time to balance family responsibilities with your career and take the time needed to strengthen family relationships. We understand the complexities of starting or expanding a family, which is why we provide best-in-class comprehensive assistance for fertility-related matters.

Wellness Comes First: Live Good Health is one of our core values. Receive a monthly Wellness Allowance, empowering you to focus on your physical and mental well-being by choosing from a range of wellness initiatives, including dedicated mental health days.

Celebrate Greatness: Your hard work deserves recognition! Our reward and recognition platform empowers peers to acknowledge and reward each other for the exceptional contributions they make.

Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Get access to MyFitnessPal Premium, allowing you to take your fitness, health and wellness journey to new heights.

Unlock Your Potential: Access our virtual learning and development library, and participate in training opportunities to continuously grow and enhance your skills.

Championing Inclusion: Our dedicated DEI Committee actively fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace by setting actionable goals and evaluating progress across the organization.

Healthcare Matters: Your well-being is our priority. Take advantage of our competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits that cater to your holistic healthcare needs. Feel secure and supported on your wellness journey.

Secure Your Future: Benefit from our retirement savings program, giving you peace of mind for your financial goals. Reach them sooner with MyFitnessPal’s competitive employer match.

At MyFitnessPal, our mission is to enable people to make healthy choices. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability. These are our guiding ideologies and apply across all aspects of employment.

MyFitnessPal participates in E-Verify.