Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Data and AI Platform Engineer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of product analytics maturity and AI enablement. The mandate centers on making a lakehouse platform a dependable internal standard for governed data, self service BI, and emerging agentic analytics, which reflects how SaaS companies are formalizing data as shared infrastructure rather than a set of ad hoc pipelines.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable platform skills that travel well across modern subscription businesses: operating a core analytics foundation, setting governance patterns, and creating reusable standards that multiple teams rely on. The emphasis on Databricks native capabilities also signals hands on experience with the current toolchain many SaaS organizations are adopting to unify analytics and AI workloads under one operational model.
This role is best suited for a senior individual contributor who prefers ownership over a platform surface area and influence through architecture, standards, and cross functional partnership. It will fit professionals who enjoy translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into stable primitives, and who want to balance delivery work with long horizon platform stewardship in a remote, US based context.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
As a Senior Data and AI Platform Engineer on the Jellyfish Research team, you will support our mission to deliver product innovation, cutting-edge research, and trusted analytics and insights across Jellyfish. You will help build the data and AI platform that powers our internal enterprise-wide analytics, self-service BI, agentic analytics, and AI-enabled workflows.
This role is ideal for a senior individual contributor who is excited to combine traditional data engineering with modern data platform ownership. You will still build ingestion, transformation, and data delivery pipelines, but your broader mandate will be to help make Databricks the trusted foundation for analytics and AI across the company.
You will play a key role in designing and operating our Databricks Lakehouse, governing our data through Unity Catalog, enabling accurate and scalable BI within Databricks, and building the foundation for agentic analytics using capabilities such as Genie, Databricks Apps, Ontology, and other Databricks-native AI and analytics features.
Most importantly, you will be part of a highly talented team working in a fun, challenging, and collaborative environment, building a fast-growing business led by experienced entrepreneurs and backed by top-tier investment partners.
Let’s talk about what you’ll do
Design, build, and maintain data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, data science, BI and AI across Jellyfish.
Lead the evolution of Jellyfish’s Databricks Lakehouse platform, helping define the architecture, governance model, development patterns, and operating practices that make the platform reliable, scalable, and easy to use.
Be a leader in enabling enterprise-wide agentic analytics within Databricks with trusted datasets, semantic definitions, well-managed context, and well-governed agentic access.
Help mature core Databricks platform capabilities, including Unity Catalog, governed data access, data lineage, metadata management, compute patterns, environment management, and platform observability.
Build and maintain ingestion pipelines that bring high-value data into the Lakehouse
Partner on data flows that send trusted data to other internal systems
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, product managers, engineering leaders, customer success leaders, go-to-market leaders, and other stakeholders to understand analytical needs and design durable platform solutions.
Create standards and reusable patterns for data modeling, documentation, observability, testing, governance, and AI-readiness across the data platform.
Develop tools and processes to monitor data platform health, pipeline reliability, cost, performance, usage, and trust.
Provide technical leadership as a senior individual contributor by setting architectural direction, raising engineering standards, mentoring teammates, and helping the team make high-quality technical decisions.
Stay current with emerging Databricks and AI capabilities, evaluate where they can create real value for Jellyfish, and help turn promising ideas into production-ready platform capabilities.
Let’s talk about what you need to excel
You have deep experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, analytics engineering, or related roles.
You have designed, built, and operated reliable data platforms or large-scale data pipelines in production.
You have strong experience with Databricks or similar lakehouse/data platform technologies, and you are excited to help make Databricks a central platform for analytics and AI.
You understand how to build governed, well-modeled data assets that can support BI, analytics, data science, and AI use cases.
You have experience with data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing, monitoring, and data quality practices.
You have advanced SQL skills and experience working with multiple database and warehouse technologies.
You are a strong programmer, with experience building production-grade systems in Python or similar languages.
You understand the importance of metadata, documentation, lineage, access control, and semantic context in making data trustworthy and usable.
You are excited about AI and agentic analytics, but you also understand that successful AI depends on strong data foundations, clear definitions, governance, evaluation, and operational discipline.
You are comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating ambiguous needs into durable platform capabilities.
You operate as a senior individual contributor: you can lead through architecture, judgment, communication, influence, and execution without needing to be a people manager.
You love learning new things and teaching others what you know.
You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a cross-functional team.
Bonus points if you have experience with
Databricks Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, Databricks Workflows, Databricks Apps, Genie, or related Databricks AI/BI capabilities.
Building platforms for self-service analytics, governed BI, semantic layers, metrics layers, or AI-assisted analytics.
Designing data platforms that support LLMs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, MCP, or other AI-enabled workflows.
Infrastructure-as-code and platform automation tools such as Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, CI/CD pipelines, or similar technologies.
dbt and modern analytics engineering practices
A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great, but humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must.
Occasional travel may be required.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Let’s talk about us!
This is all about you, but you want to know a little about us. Jellyfish is the leading intelligence platform for AI-Integrated engineering, helping more than 1,000 companies including DraftKings, Keller Williams and Blue Yonder, leverage AI to transform how they build software. By combining the industry’s deepest engineering dataset with context-rich intelligence, Jellyfish helps R&D organizations understand what’s driving impact, adopt proven industry best practices, and make smarter decisions across AI adoption, planning, delivery, and engineering performance.
