Senior Data Engineer

Otter.ai•Mountain View, CA

9d•$185,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and build the core data foundations that power analytics, experimentation, and decision-making across the company. In this role, you will design and own foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable self-serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale. You will partner closely with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering teams as a technical thought leader who helps teams extract meaningful value from data. This is a high-ownership role in a growing company, and you will have a direct impact on how data is collected, modeled, and used to drive the business forward.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in data engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion
Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
Expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
Experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
Strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads
Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
Worked in fast-paced tech, AI or SaaS environments

Responsibilities

Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics
Design, operate, and scale reliable data pipelines and platforms
Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data products
Influence data collection and logging standards across production systems
Establish best practices for data modeling, quality, and governance
Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection
Provide technical leadership that improves data reliability and data literacy