Senior Staff Data Engineer

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About the role

  • Leading Cohere’s Data Foundation team for enterprise AI infrastructure. Owning governed warehouses, pipelines, analytics platforms, and agentic data products.

Responsibilities

  • Hire and grow a team of data and infrastructure engineers
  • Set the technical bar, develop talent, improve team performance, and build leadership capability
  • Own and sequence the Data Foundation roadmap covering warehouse buildout, agentic analytics, data governance, and platform work
  • Manage the end-to-end data platform, including ingestion, Airflow and Cloud Run orchestration, BigQuery/dbt modeling, Looker, export APIs, semantic layers, and Terraform provisioning
  • Define governance and access for humans, service accounts, and agents using VPC service controls, IAM patterns, onboarding paths, audit logs, and sensitive-request processes
  • Operate alerting and anomaly detection, own data freshness SLAs, lead incident response and postmortems, and establish durable reliability standards
  • Lead the agentic analytics program, including semantic-layer integration, evaluation harness development, and production decisions
  • Establish company-wide analytics standards, onboard new domains, and maintain accurate documentation
  • Partner with Product and Engineering, Business Insights, Security, and Legal on analytics surfaces, business marts, governance, and compliance-critical requests

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience across data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics platform work
  • Strong management track record leading data platform or infrastructure teams
  • Serious hands-on experience in data engineering or infrastructure before management
  • Production experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake
  • Experience with workflow orchestration such as Airflow
  • Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform
  • Depth in data modeling, including fact and dimension tables, raw/core/mart separation, and semantic layers
  • Experience setting team roadmaps from company or function strategy and delivering cross-team outcomes
  • Demonstrated operational excellence with alerting, SLAs, incident response, and postmortems
  • Exposure to data security and governance, including IAM, access management, VPC service controls, audit, and compliance workflows
  • Genuine interest in AI and AI-agent data foundations
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, leading multi-workstream roadmaps, and working directly with executives

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits covering arts and culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for travel to other offices for remote employees
  • Annual company offsite
  • Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for office employees
  • Co-working benefit for employees not near an office
  • $500 home office stipend

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$380,000 - CA$450,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowBigQueryCloudTerraform

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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