WHOOP

Senior Data Platform Engineer

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2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

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
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About WHOOP

501-1,000 employees

Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.

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