MyFitnessPal
Staff Data Engineer
Job Summary
This role involves designing and maintaining high-throughput, event-driven data services and pipelines using technologies such as Python, Airflow, and Snowflake. The candidate will lead efforts in data modeling, CI/CD, and system resilience while mentoring data engineers and ensuring data security and compliance. Extensive experience with data platforms, distributed systems, and API design is required. The position offers comprehensive employee benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a collaborative, inclusive work environment.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
At MyFitnessPal, we believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide tools, resources and support to enable users to reach their health goals.
Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our MyFitnessPal Data Science team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users by creating the predictive models and AI that drives the MyFitnessPal ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise and passion, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.
About our team:
MyFitnessPal encourages innovation and adoption of the latest technologies available to deliver an amazing experience for our members. Our diverse team of brilliant technologists builds and maintains native mobile applications, a web application, the world’s largest nutrition database, constantly evolving data science and AI/ML assets, the backend infrastructure and data platform required to support these applications and databases, as well as the business systems and data required to manage an awesome company. Technologies and languages we work with include: Airflow, Amazon RDS, MySQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Elasticsearch, Scala, Python, SQL, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Kubernetes, Docker, Okta, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub CoPilot. We care more about your general engineering skill than your knowledge of a specific language and or framework.
If you are highly motivated, results-oriented, and thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, please apply. We’re looking to add talent that can help further define the culture we’re creating: consumer-centric, curious, and always innovating.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, event-driven data services and orchestration pipelines using Python, Airflow, and Snowflake, enabling reliable analytics and product insights at scale
- Architect and evolve core platform components to ensure scalable, secure, and extensible data pipelines to support the organization
- Drive adoption of DataOps best practices—data modeling, CI/CD, unit testing, and validation frameworks—ensuring quality and consistency across the data platform
- Mentor data engineers, fostering technical growth and driving alignment on architectural patterns, tooling, and resilient system design
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that span infrastructure, data services, and observability, to ensure operational excellence
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to proactively identify and solve complex user-facing and system-level challenges across data domains
- Develop and maintain secure, compliant, and well-governed data systems, implementing role-based access controls (RBAC) in alignment with legal, security, and data governance requirements
Qualifications to be successful in this role:
- 8 - 12 years in engineering roles, including 3 - 5 years in data engineering at senior / architect / staff level working end-to-end data platforms
- Extensive experience in Snowflake
- Experience with a variety of distributed and non-distributed, structured and unstructured data stores (e.g. RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, S3)
- Extensive experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tool
- Experience writing high throughput services in Python
- Experience with high volume, even-driven architecture
- Experience with a variety of API design patterns ( REST, SOAP, etc)
- Strong data ops skills including modeling, CI/CD pipelines, source control, unit testing frameworks, and data validation frameworks
- Experience implementing observability via monitoring and alerting
- Strong familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems and near-real-time processing (e.g. Kafka)
- Experience with modular modeling via dbt, including deploying semantic layer best practices
- Experience with dataset versioning and CI enforcement
- Experience with scaling and resilience in data pipelines
- Experience in high velocity experimentation organizations
The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $160,000 - $190,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.
Exciting Full-Time Employee Benefits, Perks and Culture
Face-to-Face Connections: We value personal connections. Enjoy opportunities to meet and connect with your team members in person to help forge meaningful relationships that extend beyond the virtual realm. Teams meet as often as needed and all of MyFitnessPal gathers annually.
Flexibility At Its Best: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve. Enjoy a flexible time-off policy with our Responsible Time Off benefit.
Give Back: Use your volunteer days off to support what matters most to you. Each full time teammate receives 2 days per calendar year to give back to their community through service.
Mentorship Program: Take control of your career through our mentorship program where, if you’d like, you will be matched with a teammate who can help you scale your skills and propel your growth.
Family-Friendly Support: Embrace the journey with confidence and care. Enjoy our paid maternity and paternity leave, to provide time to balance family responsibilities with your career and take the time needed to strengthen family relationships. We understand the complexities of starting or expanding a family, which is why we provide best-in-class comprehensive assistance for fertility-related matters.
Wellness Comes First: Live Good Health is one of our core values. Receive a monthly Wellness Allowance, empowering you to focus on your physical and mental well-being by choosing from a range of wellness initiatives, including dedicated mental health days.
Celebrate Greatness: Your hard work deserves recognition! Our reward and recognition platform empowers peers to acknowledge and reward each other for the exceptional contributions they make.
Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Get access to MyFitnessPal Premium, allowing you to take your fitness, health and wellness journey to new heights.
Unlock Your Potential: Access our virtual learning and development library, and participate in training opportunities to continuously grow and enhance your skills.
Championing Inclusion: Our dedicated DEI Committee actively fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace by setting actionable goals and evaluating progress across the organization.
Healthcare Matters: Your well-being is our priority. Take advantage of our competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits that cater to your holistic healthcare needs. Feel secure and supported on your wellness journey.
Secure Your Future: Benefit from our retirement savings program, giving you peace of mind for your financial goals. Reach them sooner with MyFitnessPal’s competitive employer match.
At MyFitnessPal, our mission is to enable people to make healthy choices. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability. These are our guiding ideologies and apply across all aspects of employment.
MyFitnessPal participates in E-Verify.
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