Senior Data Engineer

Otter.ai • Mountain View, CA

11h • 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

• Has 5+ years of experience in data engineering
• Has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Is highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion.
• Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL
• Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
• Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
• Is experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
• Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads
• Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
• Has 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

Benefits

• We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants throughout the hiring process.
• Accessibility & Accommodations Otter.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our hiring process. If you need assistance or an accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] at least 3 business days before your interview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior