Senior Data Platform Engineer

Playlist is a company focused on connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness and wellness. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design scalable data pipelines and infrastructure, enabling analytics and decision-making across their ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and optimize cloud-native data warehouse solutions that power real-time decisions and long-term strategy
• Design and scale dbt models across bronze/silver layers with a focus on data contracts, observability, and semantic consistency
• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Fivetran, Snowpipe, and CDC to support streaming and batch workloads
• Lead the design of infrastructure-as-code deployments with Pulumi or Terraform, driving CI/CD maturity and cost-efficient operations
• Elevate data quality with comprehensive monitoring, anomaly detection, and validation frameworks
• Collaborate across squads to align data contracts, expand shared data marts, and support machine learning enablement
• Champion data governance, ensuring privacy and compliance through PII tagging, lineage, and role-based access controls
• Drive continuous platform improvement through systematic tech debt remediation and modernization initiatives

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in data engineering, software engineering, platform architecture, or modern data warehousing
• Proficient in Python and SQL for automation, transformation logic, and data platform development
• Experience implementing observability standards, anomaly detection, and data quality validation
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-squad initiatives and deliver scalable outcomes
• Hands-on experience with job orchestration and infrastructure as code (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform)
• Strong understanding of data modeling principles and architectural patterns such as star schemas and bronze/silver/gold layering
• Comfort mentoring engineers, influencing technical roadmaps, and advocating for best practices
• Architect and optimize cloud-native data warehouse solutions that power real-time decisions and long-term strategy
• Design and scale dbt models across bronze/silver layers with a focus on data contracts, observability, and semantic consistency
• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Fivetran, Snowpipe, and CDC to support streaming and batch workloads
• Lead the design of infrastructure-as-code deployments with Pulumi or Terraform, driving CI/CD maturity and cost-efficient operations
• Elevate data quality with comprehensive monitoring, anomaly detection, and validation frameworks
• Collaborate across squads to align data contracts, expand shared data marts, and support machine learning enablement
• Champion data governance, ensuring privacy and compliance through PII tagging, lineage, and role-based access controls
• Drive continuous platform improvement through systematic tech debt remediation and modernization initiatives