Senior Data Engineer
Mountain View, CA
- Pay
USD 185,000–230,000/year — pay source
Salary range Salary Range: $185,000 to $230,000 USD per year. This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.
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What you’ll work on
Full postingIn this role, you will design and own foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable self-serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale.
Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics
Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection
From the employer’s posting
The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and build the core data foundations that power analytics, experimentation, and decision-making across the company. In this role, you will design and own foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable self-serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale. You will partner closely with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering teams as a technical thought leader who helps teams extract meaningful value from data. This is a high-ownership role in a growing company, and you will have a direct impact on how data is collected, modeled, and used to drive the business forward.
Your Impact Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics Design, operate, and scale reliable data pipelines and platforms
Establish best practices for data modeling, quality, and governance Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection Provide technical leadership that improves data reliability and data literacy
Tools in this posting
- Python
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Airflow
- SQL
- AWS
- dbt
- Databricks
Source — Tool mentions in context
- Is highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion. - Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL - Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
- Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL - Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks - Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines - Is experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt) - Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads
- Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads - Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) - Has worked in fast-paced tech, AI or SaaS environments
About Otter.ai
Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.
In the employer’s words · Read in context
Job description
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and build the core data foundations that power analytics, experimentation, and decision-making across the company. In this role, you will design and own foundational data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable self-serve analytics and trustworthy insights at scale.
You will partner closely with Growth, Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Insights, and Engineering teams as a technical thought leader who helps teams extract meaningful value from data. This is a high-ownership role in a growing company, and you will have a direct impact on how data is collected, modeled, and used to drive the business forward.
Your Impact
- Build and own foundational data models that enable self-serve analytics and key business metrics
- Design, operate, and scale reliable data pipelines and platforms
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into trusted data products
- Influence data collection and logging standards across production systems
- Establish best practices for data modeling, quality, and governance
- Implement data quality checks, statistical validation, and anomaly detection
- Provide technical leadership that improves data reliability and data literacy
We're looking for someone who
- Has 5+ years of experience in data engineering
- Has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Is highly hands-on, actively contributing code and driving projects to completion.
- Has strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Has expertise with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
- Has experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Is experienced with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
- Has strong data modeling skills and understands how to design for analytical workloads
- Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
- Has worked in fast-paced tech, AI or SaaS environments
About Otter.ai
We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.
With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants throughout the hiring process.
Accessibility & Accommodations
Otter.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our hiring process. If you need assistance or an accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact hr@otter.ai at least 3 business days before your interview.
*Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate.
Salary range
Salary Range: $185,000 to $230,000 USD per year.
This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.
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- Pay
Salary range Salary Range: $185,000 to $230,000 USD per year. This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.
- Location & working pattern
Mountain View, CA
This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package. #LI-Hybrid
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- Status in our records
- Active
- First seen by us
- Aug 16, 2026
- Recorded sightings
- 16
- Last seen by us
- Oct 8, 2026
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