Senior / Staff Data Engineer, AI & Data Platforms

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Fully remote opportunity for candidates based in CanadaFull-TimeStaff
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Experience
At least 5 years of professional engineering experience
Required Skills
AWSApache AirflowSnowflakeSparkdbtDatabricksLLMDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional engineering experience; demonstrated achievements and technical ownership are valued.
  • Experience building data infrastructure, platforms, or data products from scratch.
  • Strong foundations in distributed systems, platform engineering, software engineering, or modern data engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Airflow, and dbt.
  • Experience designing streaming or event-driven architectures and building scalable, reliable production systems.
  • Experience owning production environments, including monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and on-call responsibilities.
  • AI and large language model experience in data platforms, such as AI-assisted analytics, semantic layers, AI data assistants, or natural-language interfaces, is highly desirable.
  • Experience developing self-service analytics, embedded analytics, or customer-facing data products.
  • A track record of measurable technical or commercial impact.
  • Staff-level candidates should be able to lead architecture decisions, influence technical direction, establish engineering practices, and mentor others.
  • Strong product thinking, commercial awareness, analytical problem-solving, and the ability to explain and justify complex technical decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve cloud-based data infrastructure and scalable data platforms.
  • Develop reliable data pipelines, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
  • Build AI-enabled data capabilities, including LLM-powered workflows, agentic data solutions, semantic layers, and natural-language analytics.
  • Develop self-service analytics platforms and customer-facing or embedded data products.
  • Address data streaming, governance, metadata management, and knowledge-system challenges.
  • Own deployment, production reliability, observability, performance monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
  • Define architectural direction, establish engineering standards, and make technical decisions for long-term scalability.
  • Collaborate with technical leadership and cross-functional teams to prioritize solutions and connect engineering investments to business outcomes.
  • Mentor engineers and help establish and grow the data engineering function.
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