Senior Staff Data Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop data and infrastructure engineers, set technical standards, and improve team performance.
• Set and deliver the Data Foundation roadmap, balancing warehouse development, governance, agentic analytics, and platform priorities.
• Own ingestion, orchestration, BigQuery and dbt modeling, and serving through Looker, export APIs, and semantic layers.
• Define access controls and governance for people, service accounts, and agents, including audit logs and legal-hold requests.
• Maintain anomaly detection, freshness SLAs, incident response, and postmortem practices.
• Build an internal analytics agent and evaluation harness; use evaluation results to guide production adoption.
• Set company analytics standards and onboard new domains while keeping documentation current.
• Partner with product, engineering, Business Insights, Security, and Legal on analytics, governance, and compliance needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics platform work, with a strong record leading teams.
• Hands-on data engineering or infrastructure experience, including the ability to review Terraform, dbt, and Airflow work.
• Production experience with cloud data warehouses, workflow orchestration, and infrastructure as code; similar tools are acceptable.
• Strong data modeling knowledge, including fact and dimension tables, raw/core/mart layers, semantic layers, tests, and contracts.
• Experience setting strategic roadmaps and delivering cross-functional outcomes.
• Demonstrated operational excellence in alerting, SLAs, incident response, and postmortems.
• Exposure to data security and governance, including IAM, access management, VPC service controls or equivalent, audit, and compliance.
• Interest in AI and comfort with ambiguity, multi-workstream roadmaps, and executive-level priorities.

Benefits

• Full-time employees receive health and dental benefits, mental-health support, and retirement matching or pension benefits, depending on location.
• Benefits include parental leave top-up, six weeks of paid vacation, annual enrichment and learning stipends, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Remote employees may receive a travel budget for other offices and an annual company offsite.

Workplace

• Cohere describes itself as remote-friendly and has offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.
• Employees not near an office may receive a co-working benefit; all employees receive a CAD 500 home-office stipend.

Compensation

• Compensation range is CAD 275,000 to CAD 450,000; the source does not specify a pay cadence.