Senior Data Engineer

About this role

<p><strong>What the Role Is</strong></p> <p>The Data team at Babylist powers decision-making across the entire business — from product growth to operations to AI. This is a senior individual contributor role on the Data Engineering team, sitting at the intersection of platform thinking and AI-native tooling. You'll own the architecture and systems that make data engineering itself more scalable — not just the pipelines, but the harnesses and agentic scaffolding that generate, test, and maintain them. You'll work cross-functionally with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to keep Babylist's data infrastructure reliable and ahead of where the business is going.</p> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experienced building production AI/LLM systems — RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, tool integrations (e.g., MCP servers) that real users depend on, not just prototypes</li> <li>Platform-minded — you see repetitive data engineering work as a system design problem and build the scaffolding to automate it</li> <li>Deeply fluent in Python and production-grade data engineering, with 7+ years building systems that hold up at scale</li> <li>Proficient with Airflow and dbt — you understand data modeling and ETL principles, not just the tooling</li> <li>Comfortable in AWS — you've provisioned and managed cloud data resources across EC2, S3, Lambda, and EKS</li> <li>Familiar with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data warehouses</li> <li>Able to work cross-functionally with analysts and data scientists — translating their needs into infrastructure that actually serves them</li> <li>You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next.</li> <li><strong>You're genuinely excited about what AI can do - </strong>not just as a concept, but as something you want to get your hands on. At Babylist, every team uses AI daily, and we're looking for people who lean in.</li> </ul> <p><strong>How You Will Make An Impact</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and scale data pipelines for ingestion into Snowflake — with a focus on reliability and performance across a $750M+ e-commerce business</li> <li>Design and ship the agentic systems that perform data engineering work — pipeline generation, testing, and maintenance as automated systems, not one-off builds</li> <li>Develop and maintain ML pipelines that help data scientists operationalize models and integrate them with our data infrastructure</li> <li>Implement and improve data monitoring across complex, multi-system user journeys</li> <li>Collaborate with Analytics Engineers on data modeling and the reliability of shared data assets</li> <li>Partner with product, analyst, and ML teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions — from ingestion to advanced analytics and AI\</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why This Role</strong></p> <ul> <li>You're building the meta-layer — not just pipelines, but the systems that build pipelines; it's a rare scope for a data engineering role</li> <li>The data infrastructure is solid; you're extending and automating something that works, not inheriting a mess</li> <li>AI is core to the mandate here, not a future aspiration — agentic data engineering is a real part of the roadmap, not a stretch goal</li> <li>You'll have direct influence on how a 9M+ user platform scales its data systems through a pre-IPO growth moment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who We Are</strong></p> <p>Babylist is the leading platform for expecting and new families. More than 10 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, guidance, and expert recommendations. As a modern, AI-forward tech company, Babylist has expanded from a universal registry into a full ecosystem — the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, Babylist Money, NYC and LA showrooms, branded content, and more — generating $750M in revenue in 2025. Building the generational brand in baby, Babylist is reshaping the $235B kids and baby market and helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step.</p> <p><strong>Our Ways of Working</strong></p> <p>Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U.S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up.</p> <p><strong>Why You Will Love Working At Babylist</strong></p> <p><strong>Our Culture</strong></p> <ul> <li>We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge</li> <li>We believe in exceptional management, and we invest in the tools and the time to connect with colleagues</li> <li>We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives</li> <li>AI is part of how we work, not a side experiment. You'll have leading tools like Claude and ChatGPT from day one, with no waiting on access, so the busywork gets handled and your judgment goes where it counts</li> </ul> <p><strong>Growth & Development</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement</li> <li>We believe…