Senior Backend Software Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

Join Playlist as a Senior Backend Software Engineer, Data Platform, to shape the backbone of our data strategy, designing scalable pipelines, championing governance, and enabling AI-ready infrastructure. You'll lead cross-functional projects that fuel analytics, automation, and decision-making across the Playlist ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in data engineering, software engineering, platform architecture, or modern data warehousing
• Deep expertise in Snowflake (Snowpark, Streams, Tasks, Data Sharing) and strong SQL/dbt fluency
• Proficient in Python for automation, transformation logic, and data platform development
• Experience implementing observability standards, anomaly detection, and data quality validation
• Skilled in managing complex, multi-squad initiatives with a clear track record of driving scalable outcomes
• Hands-on knowledge of Airflow, Atlan, and infrastructure as code (Pulumi or Terraform)
• A strong grasp of data modeling principles and architecture patterns like star schema and bronze/silver/gold layering
• Comfortable mentoring engineers, influencing technical roadmaps, and advocating for best practices