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[Remote] Staff Data Platform Engineer

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BetterUp is a company dedicated to human transformation and is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to craft robust, scalable data systems that will impact the lives of workers globally. The role involves architecting, building, and maintaining data systems, while collaborating with various stakeholders to unlock data enablement and support AI-driven product innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain data systems that are delivering on end customer value
  • Centralize and standardize data collection, data transformation and analysis, data storage, and data serving approaches and processes
  • Support our ML / GenAI teams and functionality with platform capabilities for data delivery, processing, and infrastructure
  • Support our reporting and analytics teams in delivering both internal and customer-facing business insights
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in a fast-evolving tech nology ecosystem
  • Operationally managing our data infrastructure, vendors, tooling, and processes
  • Set technical direction for how the data platform evolves to support AI-driven product capabilities over a 1–2 year horizon
  • Establish standards and best practices for data infrastructure, tooling, and AI-augmented workflows that other engineering teams adopt
  • Mentor and influence engineers across the organization on data systems architecture and AI-augmented engineering practices
  • Evaluate emerging AI and data tooling, and drive adoption of the highest-impact ones across the platform

Skills

  • Architect, build, and maintain data systems that are delivering on end customer value
  • Centralize and standardize data collection, data transformation and analysis, data storage, and data serving approaches and processes
  • Support our ML / GenAI teams and functionality with platform capabilities for data delivery, processing, and infrastructure
  • Support our reporting and analytics teams in delivering both internal and customer-facing business insights
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in a fast-evolving technology ecosystem
  • Operationally managing our data infrastructure, vendors, tooling, and processes
  • Set technical direction for how the data platform evolves to support AI-driven product capabilities over a 1–2 year horizon
  • Establish standards and best practices for data infrastructure, tooling, and AI-augmented workflows that other engineering teams adopt
  • Mentor and influence engineers across the organization on data systems architecture and AI-augmented engineering practices
  • Evaluate emerging AI and data tooling, and drive adoption of the highest-impact ones across the platform
  • 7+ years of experience in data platform engineering, data infrastructure, or related technical roles
  • Strong programming background (e.g. Python)
  • Operational maturity (e.g. CI/CD systems, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, monitoring, distributed systems, security and privacy best practices, etc.)
  • Experience in building and maintaining analytics stacks (e.g. Snowflake, dbt, Looker)
  • Running GenAI / ML systems in production (e.g. MLOps tooling, vector search, embedding stores, feature engineering at scale, etc.)
  • Architecting data systems (e.g. Airflow, Kafka, general system design)

Benefits

  • Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member
  • A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible paid time off
  • All federal/statutory holidays observed
  • 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
  • 5 Volunteer Days to give back
  • Learning and Development stipend
  • Company wide Summer & Winter breaks
  • Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp
  • 401(k) self contribution
  • Hybrid Expectation: You will be expected to work from your local office at least 2 days per week (or 8 days per month) and should be able to realistically commit to this structure before applying. This hybrid role will require travel up to 25% of the time for client engagements.
  • If you are not located near a hub: You will work as a fully remote employee. This remote role will require travel up to 50% of the time for client engagements and internal BetterUp purposes.

Company Overview

  • BetterUp provides AI and human coaching to improve leadership, management, and employee performance across organizations. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.betterup.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • BetterUp has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.