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SonderMind care encompasses everything from therapy and medication management to meditation and mindfulness exercises. Our clinicians leverage our digital tools and research to deliver increasingly high-quality care and to develop thriving practices. Combining technology and human connection, SonderMind drives better outcomes through our comprehensive approach. Learn more about SonderMind at sondermind.com or download the mobile app, available on iOS and Android. To follow the latest SonderMind news, get to know our clients, and learn about what it’s like to work at SonderMind, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter.\nAdditionally, we expect all team members to effectively leverage modern AI technologies as part of their everyday workflow, and to continuously adapt as new tools emerge. Familiarity with job-relevant AI platforms such as Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot or other industry-standard AI productivity tools is expected and considered essential for success at this company.\nAbout the Role\nWe are hiring a Senior Staff Data Engineer to play a senior technical leadership role on SonderMind’s Data Platform team. This role focuses on designing, building, and evolving the data systems that support analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and clinical outcomes across the business.\nAs a Senior Staff Data Engineer you will operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy. You will be responsible not only for delivering reliable data infrastructure, but also for shaping technical direction, establishing best practices, and enabling other teams to move faster with high-quality, trusted data; while operating within the constraints of a regulated healthcare environment.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign, build, and maintain core data pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, experimentation, machine learning and AI fine tuning and agentic use cases across product, clinical, and operations teams.\n\nOwn data architecture decisions related to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers, with a focus on scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and maintainability.\n\nEstablish and enforce data quality, observability, and reliability standards, including SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for critical datasets.\n\nPartner closely with analytics, data science, and product engineering teams to understand data needs and translate them into well-designed, reusable data models and pipelines.\n\nLead technical initiatives and drive best practices across the data engineering team, including code quality, testing, documentation, and data contracts.\n\nEnsure data systems meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements, with a strong understanding of handling sensitive mental health and healthcare data.\n\nMentor and support other data engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and helping raise the overall engineering bar.\n\nSupport other responsibilities and ad-hoc projects as needed based on evolving business and platform needs.\n\nWhat does success look like?\nFirst 3-6 Months:\nDevelop a strong understanding of SonderMind’s data landscape, key business use cases, and regulatory constraints.\n\nTake ownership of critical pipelines or platform components and begin making meaningful improvements to reliability and clarity.\n\nBuild trust with analytics, data science, and engineering partners through consistent delivery and thoughtful technical decisions.\n\nContinued Success in the Role\nData pipelines are reliable, observable, and well understood, with fewer surprises and faster issue resolution.\n\nTeams across the company are able to move faster because data is accessible, well modeled, and trusted.\n\nTechnical decisions scale well over time and reduce long-term maintenance and operational burden.\n\nYou influence platform direction beyond your own code by raising standards and helping others make better technical choices.\n\nHow Performance Is Measured\nReliability and quality of core data systems, including uptime, freshness, and accuracy.\n\nImpact on team velocity and downstream consumers, including analytics, ML, AI, and product.\n\nTechnical leadership and influence across the data organization.\n\nAlignment with SonderMind’s career competencies, including ownership, collaboration, and thoughtful problem-solving.\n\nWho You Are\nQualifications:\n8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering roles.\n\nStrong proficiency in SQL and at least one general-purpose programming language (Python strongly preferred).\n\nHands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines at scale.\n\nExperience working with modern data platforms, including cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools, and transformation frameworks.\n\nStrong understanding of data modeling, pipeline reliability, and system design trade-offs.\n\nProven ability to work cross-functionally and translate business needs into effective technical solutions.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nPreferred (Not Required):\nExperience in healthcare, mental health, or other regulated environments.\n\nFamiliarity with streaming or event-driven data systems.\n\nExperience supporting machine learning or experimentation workflows.\n\nExposure to data governance, privacy, or compliance frameworks.\n\nOur Benefits\nThe anticipated salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, education, and past performance.\nAs leaders in redesigning behavioral health, we walk the walk with our employees' benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their lives and work.\nOur benefits include:\nA generous PTO policy, with a minimum of three weeks off per year\n\nA holiday schedule that follows standard U.S. holidays\n\nFree therapy coverage benefits to ensure employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in a qualifying medical plan to participate)\n\nCompetitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, with plans to meet every need - including HSA (with $1,100 company contribution) and FSA options\n\nEmployer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life & AD&D, plus coverage of the salary difference for up to seven weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period)\n\nEight weeks of paid Parental Leave; if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, allowing for 8-16 weeks 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