Staff Data Platform Engineer - AI Marketing Backend

Scowtt; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Scowtt is hiring a Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Data Platform to own end‑to‑end data and backend systems powering Marketing AI and AI Sales Agents. You will build robust data ingestion, transformation, and loading pipelines and collaborate across ML, analytics, and product teams.

The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and performance, with opportunities to contribute to frontend work as needed in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience building production software systems.
• Strong hands‑on software engineering experience with Python and TypeScript / Node.js.
• Significant experience designing and operating backend services and production data pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets and analytical databases.
• Experience building and operating systems in GCP and/or AWS.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex systems from design through production.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to move quickly in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Own backend and data systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to production operation and scale.
• Design and build scalable data pipelines for CRM, web, advertising, product, and other customer data.
• Build integrations with data warehouses and platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, and customer‑managed databases.
• Design reliable ingestion patterns across APIs, cloud storage, databases, data sharing, batch processing, and event‑driven systems.
• Build curated datasets and data models used by ML systems, analytics, reporting, and customer‑facing applications.
• Develop backend APIs, services, and internal applications using Python and TypeScript.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Data pipelines

Backend systems

SQL

Cloud platforms

Independent ownership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Databricks

Redshift

Postgres/RDS

GCS

S3

Cloud Run

Lambda

PubSub/SQS

Job description

Scowtt is hiring a Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Data Platform to own end‑to‑end data and backend systems powering Marketing AI and AI Sales Agents. You will build robust data ingestion, transformation, and loading pipelines and collaborate across ML, analytics, and product teams.

The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and performance, with opportunities to contribute to frontend work as needed in a startup environment.