MasterClass · 17 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$167K/yr - $200K/yr
7+ years expMasterClass is the streaming platform where the world’s best come together to inspire others through their knowledge and stories. The Senior Data Engineer will own, evolve, and scale the core data platform, ensuring data systems are reliable and scalable while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive insights and business growth.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate robust, fault-tolerant, and observable data pipelines using Airflow and modern ELT best practices
Architect, enhance and improve data ingestion, AWS data infrastructure, including Redshift, S3 and monitoring
Partner with Analytics, Product, Finance, Marketing, and Content teams to design canonical, analytics-ready datasets that power key metrics such as growth, engagement, retention, and revenue
Define, implement, and enforce SLAs, data quality checks, observability, and alerting for production data systems. Take shared ownership of data platform reliability, participating in on-call rotations and driving root-cause fixes for incidents
Contribute to design reviews, raising engineering quality, and sharing best practices
Evaluate and introduce data tooling that improves reliability, developer productivity, and analytics velocity
Collaborate deeply with cross functional teams to align event design, source systems, and data contracts
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with ownership of production data platforms at scale
Deep expertise designing and operating Airflow, AWS-based data platforms, including Redshift, S3, IAM, and related services in complex production environments
Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with strong data modeling and systems design skills
Strong understanding of distributed data processing, modern ELT architectures, analytics workflows and BI use cases, and experience partnering closely with Analytics and business stakeholders
AI tools knowledge that includes an understanding of prompt engineering and familiarity with modern AI technology stacks
Strong communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions, influence architecture, and drive initiatives across teams
Benefits
Equity
Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, flexible PTO, and more)
Company
MasterClass
MasterClass is a provider of an online education platform designed to offer video based vocational courses.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$461.4MKey Investors
FidelityIVPNew Enterprise Associates
2021-07-22Secondary Market
2021-05-07Secondary Market
2021-04-23Series F· $225M
Leadership Team
David Rogier
Founder and CEO
Erica Kammann
VP, Chief of Staff
Recent News
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