Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering

• Design, build and operate production pipelines using Python, SQL and Databricks/Spark for cloud billing, SaaS usage and shared-service telemetry.
• Build reusable ingestion frameworks and data contracts for APIs and file-based sources, handling schema changes, late-arriving data and safe backfills.
• Develop cost, usage and ownership models for BU, platform and service allocation, with reconciliation and traceability to source records.
• Implement data freshness, completeness and accuracy checks, lineage and actionable monitoring. Diagnose incidents and automate retries, replay and recovery.
• Optimize distributed processing, storage and serving-layer queries for performance, scalability and infrastructure cost.
• Own testing, CI/CD, safe deployments and operational runbooks for data services, and participate in production support.
• Partner with Finance, infrastructure and service owners to turn reporting and governance requirements into clear data models and interfaces.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and apply access controls and auditability throughout the data lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software or data engineering experience building and operating production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience writing maintainable, tested code and debugging complex data transformations.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark and lakehouse technologies, or comparable distributed data platforms.
• Experience with data modeling, incremental processing, partitioning, schema evolution and analytical query performance.
• Experience building cloud-based pipelines and integrating REST APIs, including authentication, pagination, rate limits and error handling.
• A track record of owning production reliability through automated tests, data quality checks, monitoring, incident diagnosis and recovery.
• Clear technical communication and the ability to resolve ambiguous data requirements with engineering and business partners.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and secure handling of credentials and data access. Sound judgment when using AI coding tools and validating generated code.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Familiarity with FinOps, cloud billing datasets, FOCUS, SaaS license utilization or cost-allocation models across cloud and shared services.
• Experience with data catalogs, workflow orchestration, observability platforms or AI-assisted anomaly detection and root-cause analysis.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.

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