Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer

WeightWatchers is a global digital health company and the world's #1 doctor-recommended, clinically studied behavioral weight health program. For sixty years, we have led the industry by blending science and community to help millions of people build sustainable healthy habits.

As the science of weight health rapidly evolves, so does WeightWatchers. We are redefining the category by developing new clinical pathways for GLP-1 medication access, creating specialized behavioral programs for members on weight-loss medications, and integrating medical care with our proven habit-change framework. By combining these clinical breakthroughs with our digital-first community, we are uniquely positioned to lead the future of weight health care.

The Data Team at Weight Watchers is in a key position to shape the future of our business and products. Leveraging tens of billions of data points per year, we produce insights that enable Weight Watchers to better serve our 4 million worldwide members. We are equal partners with our peers in Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and beyond. At Weight Watchers there's an authentic appetite for data-informed decision-making across the company, and our role is to educate and empower stakeholders by leading with transparency and expanding our stakeholders' understanding, often of deeply technical concepts.

We are seeking a seasoned Senior / Staff Data Engineer to drive scale, performance, and actionability within our data ecosystem. You will strengthen and scale our Python and Snowflake-based infrastructure, building the core capabilities required to support dynamic analytics and our transition toward more automated, self-service data workflows.

We need an engineer who can adapt to a dynamic product environment, who can ask the 'why' behind the 'what' to ensure we are building the right solutions. For candidates at the Staff level, we expect a proven track record of setting technical roadmaps and serving as a multiplier for the engineering and analytics teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Enablement: Support the analytics layer by developing core Looker views and building out our agentic AI infrastructure to derive automated self-service capabilities and reduce reporting bottlenecks.
• Pipeline Architecture: Design, build, and scale ELT pipelines that are resilient, efficient, and modular.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Finance, Product, and Analytics to ensure our data models solve the right problems.
• Data Modeling: Build and maintain analytics schemas (including Star Schemas) that abstract complex logic into user-friendly datasets.
• End-to-End Ownership: Lead projects from inception to production, taking accountability for data integrity and the trustworthiness of the platform.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor production health using monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Monte Carlo) ensuring our data ecosystem remains robust and reliable.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical lead, conduct code reviews, define engineering culture, and champion best practices.

Who You Are

• Experience: 5+ years in data engineering, with at least 2+ years focused on distributed, large-scale cloud data warehouses.
• Snowflake Expertise: Proven experience with Snowflake performance optimization and cost-governance. Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex/MCP is a plus.
• Technical Mastery:
• Advanced Software Engineering (Python): Deep proficiency in Python, with a focus on writing modular, reusable, and testable code (unit/integration tests) for complex data processing.
• Data Modeling & SQL Mastery: Expert-level SQL and a sophisticated understanding of data warehousing methodologies to build performant, scalable analytics layers.
• Infrastructure & Automation: Practical experience with modern CI/CD frameworks (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo CD) to drive engineering velocity and platform stability.
• Workflow Orchestration: Expertise in architecting and scaling orchestration-as-code workflows (e.g., Prefect or Airflow) to manage complex dependencies and ensure pipeline resilience.
• Observability & Reliability: Deep proficiency in deploying monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g., Datadog) to maximize system uptime while mitigating alert fatigue.
• Operational Maturity: Experience managing business-critical production pipelines with a focus on uptime, data quality, and defining SLAs.
• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

Base salary may vary depending on, but not limited to: skills, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for a comprehensive benefits package and annual bonus program.

US Pay Range $180,000 - $220,000 USD

At WeightWatchers, our mission is to build a worldwide community connected by healthy habits. If that resonates with you, then we would love to talk. WeightWatchers values developing community within our employee population as well. We have a hybrid work environment to allow our employees to find the right work-life balance.

It is our priority to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed as individuals, as an organization, and as fellow humans, to advocate for and support our employees, our members, and our communities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, national origin, marital status, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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RECRUITMENT SECURITY & FRAUD PREVENTION

At WeightWatchers, we prioritize the security of our candidates. To ensure you are communicating with a legitimate representative of our team, please keep the following security standards in mind:

• Verified Email Domain: All official correspondence from our recruiting team will originate from an @ww.com email address.
• Live Engagement: Our hiring process requires live interaction. We do not conduct interviews or extend employment offers solely through text message, chat apps, or automated email-only exchanges.
• Financial Integrity: WeightWatchers will never ask for any form of payment from a candidate. We will never send you a check with instructions to purchase equipment or "start-up kits" on our behalf.
• Secure Data Collection: Sensitive personal information (such as banking or identity tax info) is only requested through our official, secure onboarding portal after a formal offer has been extended, never during the interview phase.

Stay Vigilant: If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent WeightWatchers and the process deviates from these standards, please do not share any personal information. You can verify any open position by visiting our official careers page at