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Staff Data Engineer

MyFitnessPalRemote - USData Science
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Salary
$170K - $230K USD
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Posted
10 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

This remote Staff Data Engineer position at MyFitnessPal involves designing and maintaining core data platform components, making it ideal for experienced engineers passionate about health and wellness infrastructure. Operating within a collaborative data science environment, this role directly influences backend systems that power millions of user health journeys daily.

Role Overview

MyFitnessPal is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the data engineering team on a remote basis within the United States. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain high-throughput, event-driven data services while championing DataOps best practices across the organization. You will play a critical part in evolving core platform components, modernizing legacy pipelines, and driving technical leadership in agentic development maturity.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, event-driven data services and orchestration pipelines using Python, Airflow, and Snowflake.
Architect and evolve core platform components to ensure scalable, secure, and extensible data pipelines, including modernizing legacy ingestion patterns with CDC and Kafka event streaming.
Collaborate on the development and adoption of DataOps best practices like data modeling, CI/CD, unit testing, and validation frameworks.
Define and evangelize data engineering standards, review work for other engineers, and provide implementation guidance.
Advance team agentic development maturity by increasing recurring engineering work handled by agents while maintaining safe AI usage guardrails.
Shape data governance strategy, ensuring safe and consistent data access for tools and AI assistants.
Manage cost efficiency for Snowflake and pipeline infrastructure, balancing performance and reliability.
Mentor data and analytics engineers to foster technical growth and resilient system design.
Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning infrastructure, data services, and observability.
Build and maintain secure, compliant, and well-governed data systems utilizing role-based access controls and data lifecycle management.

Requirements

8 to 12+ years of total engineering experience, including 3 to 5+ years in data engineering at a senior, architect, or staff level.
Extensive hands-on experience with Snowflake or similar data stores.
Experience working with distributed and non-distributed, structured and unstructured data stores such as RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, and S3.
Advanced SQL skills with a proven ability to write and optimize complex queries against large-scale, high-cardinality datasets.
Extensive experience with Airflow or comparable orchestration tools.
Demonstrated background writing high-throughput services in Python.
Experience building high-volume, event-driven architectures involving change-data-capture (CDC) and distributed event streaming like Kafka.
Familiarity with various API design patterns including REST and SOAP.
Strong DataOps background covering modeling, CI/CD pipelines, source control, and unit testing frameworks.
Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
Track record of defining and driving engineering standards adopted across an organization.

Nice to Have

Experience with modular modeling via dbt and deploying semantic layer best practices.
Familiarity with dataset versioning, CI enforcement, and high-velocity experimentation organizations.
Experience with data cataloging and governance tools such as Secoda or Snowflake Horizon.
Background in building or evaluating AI-assisted internal tools with deterministic, code-level business-rule enforcement and multi-agent orchestration.

Skills and Tools

Python
SQL
Snowflake
Airflow
Kafka
Kubernetes
Docker
Scala
dbt
Terraform

Salary and Benefits

Estimated annual salary for this remote US role ranges from $170,000 to $230,000, determined by individual qualifications, skills, and experience. Comprehensive employee benefits include medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage, annual performance bonuses, a 401(k) plan with employer match, responsible time off, paid parental leave, fertility assistance, mental health days, a monthly wellness allowance, technology allowances, volunteer days, mentorship opportunities, and free access to MyFitnessPal Premium.

About the Company

MyFitnessPal creates tools, resources, and support to help people reach their health goals, anchored in the belief that good health starts with proper nutrition. The company fosters an innovative, inclusive culture where technologists build and maintain the world's largest nutrition database, native mobile and web apps, and evolving data science assets. MyFitnessPal values collaboration, continuous learning, empathy, and making a tangible impact for its members.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their application directly on the official MyFitnessPal careers page.

Skills and tech stack

PythonSQLKubernetesDockerScalaKafkaAirflowSnowflakedbtTerraform

Questions candidates ask

Is this position fully remote?

Yes, this role is listed as Remote - US, allowing qualified candidates located within the United States to work remotely.

What is the salary range for the Staff Data Engineer role?

The estimated annual salary range is between $170,000 and $230,000, with exact compensation determined by qualifications and experience.

What level of experience is required?

Candidates need 8 to 12+ years of total engineering experience, with 3 to 5+ years specifically in data engineering at a senior, architect, or staff level.

What core technologies are used in this role?

The tech stack heavily involves Python, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, and Terraform, alongside various structured and unstructured data stores.

What benefits and perks are included?

Benefits include healthcare coverage, a 401(k) match, annual performance bonuses, responsible time off, parental leave, wellness and technology allowances, and MyFitnessPal Premium access.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official MyFitnessPal careers page.

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