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Staff Data Engineer

MyFitnessPal

Remote - US · Remote · full time · Staff

$170,000 – $230,000

Listed on MyFitnessPal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

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

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