Staff Data Platform Engineer

About this role

Let’s face it, a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship.

We do. We can’t cram it all in here, but you’ll start noticing it from the first interview.

Even our candidate experience is different. And when you get an offer from us (and accept it), you get way more than a paycheck. You get a personal BetterUp Coach, a development plan, a trained and coached manager, the most amazing team you’ve ever met (yes, each with their own personal BetterUp Coach), and most importantly, work that matters.

This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience. Frankly, it’s not for everyone. But for people with fire in their belly, it’s a game-changing, career-defining, soul-lifting move.

Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career, doing life-changing work in a fun, inventive, soulful culture.

If that sounds exciting—and the job description below feels like a fit—we really should start talking.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Staff Data Platform Engineer at BetterUp, you will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise, passion, and drive to craft robust, scalable data systems which will directly impact the lives and well being of thousands of workers across the world. BetterUp is the global leader in virtual professional coaching, combining world-class coaching with AI technology and behavioral science to deliver personalized behavior change at scale. Our mission is to help people everywhere live with greater clarity, purpose, and passion and since our founding in 2013, we have pioneered transformation and peak performance for individuals and organizations.

You will be joining a small team responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining the scalable, enterprise-grade data systems that power our data products and capabilities. You’ll straddle the worlds of DataOps, MLOps, and Infrastructure, enabling both the next generation of analytics functionality and an AI Platform to fuel our AI-driven product innovation.

You will work with stakeholders across the business, understanding their data problems and ultimately unlocking data enablement through centralized standardization of tooling and processes, all with enterprise-grade best practices in mind for security, privacy, and governance. You will deliver high-quality, systems-oriented technical solutions which are both fit for today and ready for tomorrow.

If the idea of having real impact from your work, of giving people the platform to unlock true personal growth and transformation deeply resonates with you, and if you have a core belief that a strong data foundation is fundamental to building great products, come talk to us!

What you’ll do:

- 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

If you have some or all of the following, please apply:

- 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)

AI at BetterUp

Our team thrives at the intersection of human expertise and AI capability. As an AI-forward company, adaptation and continuous learning are part of our daily work. We're looking for teammates who are excited to evolve alongside technology – people who experiment boldly, share their discoveries openly, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work. These professionals thoughtfully integrate AI into their work to deliver exceptional results while maintaining the human judgment and creativity that drives real innovation. During our interview process, you’ll have opportunities to showcase how you harness AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact.

As a Staff Data Platform Engineer, you'll:

- 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

BENEFITS

At BetterUp, we are committed to living out our mission every day and that starts with providing benefits that allow our employees to care for themselves, support their families, and give back to their community.

- 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

- Per year: - All federal/statutory holidays observed - 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work) - 5 Volunteer Days to give back - Learning and Development sti

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