Senior Data Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Data Engineer role is listed onsite in Austin, TX; the posting also identifies offices in San Francisco and Paris. Compensation is not specified; the posting describes a competitive salary calibrated to experience and meaningful equity. Way builds data, AI, and infrastructure for the experience economy and serves global travel, retail, lifestyle, and hospitality brands. As an early member of the data team, the engineer establishes Way’s data platform and supports data-driven decisions across the organization. The role builds data lake and pipeline architecture, data quality systems, analytics infrastructure, and reporting tools, while collaborating with product and business teams on metrics and analytical needs.

What you'll do

• Design a cloud-native data lake
• build scalable batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines
• establish data ingestion and data quality monitoring
• create data warehousing solutions
• implement DataOps testing and deployment
• develop Python data processing frameworks
• orchestrate pipelines
• build streaming solutions
• implement infrastructure as code
• establish feature stores and data models
• optimize storage costs and query performance
• collaborate on metrics and analytical requirements
• build reporting dashboards and self-service BI tools
• support predictive modeling and A/B testing.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data engineer

full-time

austin tx

way

data infrastructure

data lake

etl/elt

python

sql

apache airflow

data analytics

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Meaningful equity
• full health, dental and vision coverage
• annual hotel and travel stipend.

Why this role

The posting offers meaningful equity, full health, dental and vision coverage, direct access to recognized consumer brands, and an annual hotel and travel stipend.

About the employer

Way is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.