Senior Staff Data Engineer

The role

You will lead the Data Foundation pillar of the Analytics and Data Insights team. You will manage the data lifecycle including ingestion, orchestration, modeling, and serving data through various surfaces.

What you will do

• Build and lead the Data Foundation team by hiring and growing data and infrastructure engineers
• Set the Data Foundation roadmap from company strategy
• Own the data platform end to end including ingestion, orchestration, warehouse modeling, and serving
• Own data governance including access management and audit logs
• Operate for reliability by running alerting, meeting SLAs, and leading incident response
• Lead the agentic analytics program and build the eval harness
• Set the standard for analytics across the company using the medallion framework
• Partner across the organization with product, engineering, business insights, security, and legal teams

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics platform work
• Strong management track record leading data platform or infrastructure teams
• Hands-on history in data engineering or infrastructure
• Production experience with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar)
• Production experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow or similar)
• Production experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Depth in data modeling including fact and dimension tables and semantic layers
• Record of setting a team roadmap from company or function strategy
• Operational excellence in alerting, SLAs, and incident response
• Exposure to data security and governance including IAM, access management, VPC service controls, and audit workflows
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and working directly with executives

Nice to have

• Genuine excitement about AI

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
• Full health and dental benefits
• Separate budget for mental health
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
• Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
• 6 weeks of paid vacation
• Budget for traveling to other offices if remote
• Annual company offsite
• Daily lunch program, snacks, and social events for those in office
• Co-working benefit for those not near an office

About the company

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products. It is a global technology company headquartered in Toronto.