# Staff Data Engineer

Hiring organization: [MyFitnessPal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/myfitnesspal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/8292b22c-c88a-4098-aa9c-4a54024d6e7d

Listed on MyFitnessPal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Remote - US
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 170000 – 230000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads data platform architecture and engineering practices at a health and fitness company, designing high-throughput event-driven pipelines and mentoring engineers across a diverse tech stack. It suits experienced engineers ready to influence organizational standards, manage infrastructure costs, and help teams adopt AI-assisted development safely.

_Our summary, not MyFitnessPal's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, GitHub, Kubernetes, PlanetScale, Python, Scala, Snowflake, SQL, Terraform

## Required

- 8–12+ years in engineering roles
- 3–5+ years in data engineering at senior/architect/staff level on end-to-end platforms
- Extensive Snowflake or equivalent data warehouse experience
- Advanced SQL skills for complex queries on large datasets
- Extensive Airflow or equivalent orchestration experience
- Python experience building high-throughput services
- Event-driven architecture experience including CDC and Kafka
- API design patterns (REST, SOAP)
- DataOps expertise: modeling, CI/CD, source control, testing, validation
- Observability implementation via monitoring and alerting
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform)
- Experience designing or driving adoption of agentic/AI-assisted development workflows
- Demonstrated track record defining engineering standards adopted across teams/organizations
- Cost-conscious infrastructure ownership

## Nice to have

- dbt modular modeling and semantic layer experience
- Dataset versioning and CI enforcement
- Data pipeline scaling and resilience experience
- High-velocity experimentation environment background
- Data cataloging/governance tools (Secoda, Snowflake Horizon)
- Building or evaluating AI-assisted internal tools with deterministic business-rule enforcement
- Multi-agent orchestration or coordination patterns

Apply on MyFitnessPal's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/myfitnesspal/jobs/8191556