Senior Data Platform Engineer

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Machine Learning & Research

Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and evolve the foundational infrastructure for WHOOP's data platform, lakehouse, and real-time data systems. This role will partner with data engineers, ML platform engineers, and data scientists to design, develop, and operate core services for data movement, supporting analytics, ML, and product innovation at scale. Requires strong ownership, minimal guidance, and focus on production-grade systems. Actively leverage AI assisted development tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and evolve the foundational infrastructure that powers our data platform, lakehouse, and real-time data systems.
  2. Partner closely with data engineers, ML platform engineers, software engineers, and data scientists to design, develop, and operate the core services and workflows that enable reliable, scalable, and efficient data movement across the organization.
  3. Own critical parts of the platform end to end - from architecture and implementation to reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
  4. Help shape the technical direction of WHOOP’s data ecosystem, improve developer experience for internal data consumers, and ensure our systems can support analytics, machine learning, and product innovation at scale.
  5. Actively leverage AI assisted development tools to improve speed, quality, and maintainability, and to help set the standard for effective AI usage across the team.

Skills

Required

  • Data platform architecture
  • Data lakehouse implementation
  • Real-time data systems
  • Data movement workflows
  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • Observability
  • Operational excellence
  • Developer experience improvement
  • Production-grade systems development

Nice to have

  • AI assisted development tools

What the JD emphasized

  • strong ownership mindset
  • operate with minimal guidance
  • focus on delivering production grade systems