3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure and services for WHOOP’s lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, and data platform systems.
- Improve the performance, reliability, cost efficiency, observability, and operational readiness of production data systems.
- Build internal tooling, APIs, and automation that improve platform usability and developer experience for data consumers.
- Lead platform engineering practices for infrastructure as code, testing, deployments, and operational readiness.
- Monitor production systems, support incident response, and drive continuous operational improvement.
- Partner with Data Science, Analytics, ML Platform, Software Engineering, and data teams to support scalable workflows.
- Drive best practices for data architecture, pipeline design, governance, and platform usage.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to improve development speed, code quality, debugging, and documentation.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering with significant ownership of production data systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; Java experience is preferred.
- Experience designing and operating scalable data platforms, pipelines, or distributed data systems in production.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data infrastructure.
- Experience with AWS services such as S3, EKS, EMR, or EC2.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Prefect.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps practices for data platforms.
- Ability to independently drive technical projects and own systems end to end with substantial autonomy.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and data teams.
- Commitment to using AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully while maintaining high engineering quality.
Benefits
- The position is full-time and based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office; relocation may be required.
- The role includes benefits and a generous equity package.
- WHOOP offers equal employment opportunity and participates in E-Verify.
Categories
Data Engineering
About WHOOP
WHOOP builds a wearable health and performance tracker paired with an analytics app that measures sleep, recovery, and strain for athletes and health‑conscious consumers. Its business model combines device sales with a recurring membership that unlocks coaching features and insights. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company also serves enterprise wellness programs and sports organizations seeking continuous performance monitoring.