Staff Data Engineer

Job description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY: JOB DESCRIPTION: We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our Emerging Tech team and define the data architecture powering our multimodal AI platform. You will set the technical vision and drive the implementation of scalable data pipelines, lakehouse infrastructure, and data platform capabilities that enable content intelligence, semantic search, recommendation, and personalization at scale — while raising the engineering bar across the data team. A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: Act as the technical anchor for your product pillar — collaborate closely with product leaders, ML engineers, backend engineers, editorial, and merchandising teams to translate ambiguous goals into clear technical designs, and communicate decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Design and hands-on implement high-throughput batch and streaming data pipelines for multimodal content — including media segments, metadata, transcripts, and engagement signals — and architect the data models and ML feature stores that support them Build scalable data ingestion frameworks across heterogeneous sources including media processing systems, AI inference se...