Senior Data Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build, and maintain streaming pipelines
• ▹Develop custom ingestion pipelines from third-party APIs, webhooks, and SDKs
• ▹Migrate existing data ingestion pipelines from SaaS tools to in-house infrastructure
• ▹Deliver data to the raw layer of the Snowflake warehouse with schema consistency, idempotency, and resilience to malformed or late data
• ▹Evolve the existing AWS streaming stack (Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway), improving cost efficiency, observability, and resilience
• ▹Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) for ingestion and processing resources
• ▹Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents
• ▹Contribute to ongoing work on safe data access for AI agents and tooling

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of commercial Python experience in a backend or data engineering role
• ▹Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including load balancing, sharding, and sync/async trade-offs
• ▹Hands-on cloud experience, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, containers in ECS/EKS)
• ▹Experience building streaming pipelines (Kinesis, SQS, or equivalents)
• ▹Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalents)
• ▹Working SQL knowledge, including joins and window functions
• ▹Commercial experience with real-world production data: designing systems that handle messy, duplicated, delayed, or malformed input
• ▹Solid understanding of how data flows through production systems
• ▹Operational mindset: comfortable owning and monitoring production systems
• ▹Ability to make architectural decisions independently and review teammates' work

Nice to have

• ▹Strong SQL and data modeling skills
• ▹Experience with Snowflake and dbt
• ▹Experience with workflow orchestrators (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalents)
• ▹Experience working with analytics and product teams as a data provider
• ▹Experience working with sensitive or regulated data

What we offer

• ▹Open-minded, inclusive company culture
• ▹Competitive salary package with stock options
• ▹In-office, remote, and hybrid work options
• ▹Equipment provided for productive work

About the company

Simple Life is the #1 AI-powered health coaching app for adults who want to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle, with over 17 million downloads and more than 300,000 five-star reviews.