
Senior Staff Data Engineer
SonderMind
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, experimentation, machine learning and AI fine tuning and agentic use cases across product, clinical, and operations teams.
- Own data architecture decisions related to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers, with a focus on scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
- Establish and enforce data quality, observability, and reliability standards, including SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for critical datasets.
- Partner closely with analytics, data science, and product engineering teams to understand data needs and translate them into well-designed, reusable data models and pipelines.
- Lead technical initiatives and drive best practices across the data engineering team, including code quality, testing, documentation, and data contracts.
- Ensure data systems meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements, with a strong understanding of handling sensitive mental health and healthcare data.
- Mentor and support other data engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and helping raise the overall engineering bar.
- Support other responsibilities and ad-hoc projects as needed based on evolving business and platform needs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering roles.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one general-purpose programming language (Python strongly preferred).
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines at scale.
- Experience working with modern data platforms, including cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools, and transformation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline reliability, and system design trade-offs.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and translate business needs into effective technical solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- A generous PTO policy, with a minimum of three weeks off per year
- A holiday schedule that follows standard U.S. holidays
- Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in a qualifying medical plan to participate)
- Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, with plans to meet every need — including HSA (with $1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life & AD&D, plus coverage of the salary difference for up to seven weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period)
- Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave; if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, allowing for 8–16 weeks of paid leave
- 401(k) retirement plan with 100% match on up to 4% of base salary, immediately vested
- Join teammates from across the country at our annual company gathering
- Company shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s
- Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, and more
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythondata pipelinesdata architecturedata modelingdata transformationdata ingestiondata storagedata servingdata quality
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationmentoringtechnical guidancedesign feedbackbest practicesincident responsecommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptability