Senior Backend Software Engineer, Data - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform Engineer team at Playlist, you’ll shape the backbone of our data strategy—designing scalable pipelines, championing governance, and enabling AI-ready infrastructure. Your work will directly empower our teams to create personalized, real-world experiences for millions of users.

In Short

• 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
• Lead the design of infrastructure-as-code deployments with Pulumi or Terraform
• 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
• Deep expertise in Snowflake and strong SQL/dbt fluency
• Proficient in Python for automation and data platform development
• Experience implementing observability standards and data quality validation
• Skilled in managing complex, multi-squad initiatives with a clear track record
• Hands-on knowledge of Airflow, Atlan, and infrastructure as code
• A strong grasp of data modeling principles and architecture patterns
• Comfortable mentoring engineers and advocating for best practices

Benefits

• Encouragement to apply even if not 100% sure of fit
• Equal Opportunity Employer promoting diversity