Senior Data Engineer

Babylist United States · Canada

About the role

This is a senior individual contributor data engineering role at Babylist, remote across the US and Canada. The engineer owns the architecture and systems that make data engineering more scalable, including agentic scaffolding that generates, tests, and maintains pipelines, not just the pipelines themselves. It suits an experienced data engineer with production AI/LLM systems experience who wants to work at the intersection of platform engineering and AI-native tooling.

What you’ll do

  • Build and scale data pipelines for ingestion into Snowflake across a $750M+ e-commerce business
  • Design and ship agentic systems that perform data engineering work such as pipeline generation and testing
  • Develop and maintain ML pipelines that help data scientists operationalize models
  • Implement and improve data monitoring across complex, multi-system user journeys
  • Collaborate with Analytics Engineers on data modeling and reliability of shared data assets
  • Partner with product, analyst, and ML teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions

What they’re looking for

  • Experience building production AI/LLM systems such as RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and tool integrations
  • 7+ years building production-grade data engineering systems at scale
  • Deep fluency in Python
  • Proficiency with Airflow and dbt, with understanding of data modeling and ETL principles
  • Comfortable in AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and EKS
  • Familiarity with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouses
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with analysts and data scientists

What’s on offer

  • Remote-first, with team members across the US and Canada
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
  • Generous paid parental leave and PTO
  • Company-wide paid week off at year end
  • Remote work stipend

Questions about this role

Is this role remote?

Yes, it is remote across the US and Canada.

How many years of experience do I need?

7+ years building production-grade data engineering systems at scale.

How this role compares

One of 12 open Senior Data Engineer roles we are tracking today.

Posted yesterday, with 2 of the others posted since and 9 still open from before.

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