Jellyfish

Design and maintain enterprise data lakehouse platform and pipelines with governance and orchestration. | Deep experience in data platform engineering with Python, SQL, Databricks, and ability to deliver senior-level technical solutions. | 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.

Develop data products using Python, Databricks, and Postgres while collaborating with teams to define metrics and roadmap. | Requires production experience with Python, SQL, modern data warehouses, and product-minded collaboration. | Jellyfish is the backbone for elite engineering organizations, and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and turn our rich data into high impact features that solve real problems for our customers. You’ll leverage existing platform capabilities while acting as a critical internal customer, providing feedback that shapes the roadmap of our core data platform. If you are passionate about data storytelling, building performant user-facing data products, and collaborating with platform teams to unlock new capabilities, you’re the perfect fit. What You’ll Actually Be Doing: You’ll join a small, highly collaborative team that works together to define questions for user research, experiment with internal data, and produce prototypes to validate ideas. You’ll engage with internal and external users, and have the opportunity to engage in all phases of product development. Your work will primarily involve Python, Databricks, and Postgres, with occasional excursions into SQL. You’ll develop deep knowledge of the data in our catalogue, and help set priorities for new data sources. You’ll partner with a data scientist and another software engineer to try out data transformations that result in insightful and useful metrics. You’ll work closely with our platform teams as they build the pipelines, components, and APIs we’ll rely on. You’ll write requirements docs and proposals, and engage in synchronous collaboration with the teams building our core data pipelines. You care about being a thoughtful and communicative partner for the platform teams. You’re a great fit: Product-Minded Data Engineer – You have solid, hands-on production experience with Python, SQL, and data transformation concepts. You are comfortable working in Postgres and in modern data warehouses, ideally Databricks. Cross-Functional Collaborator – You thrive on cross-functional teams, with access to user research, and think critically about solving problems. You identify quick ways to test hypotheses and break apart complex projects into manageable pieces. Internal Platform Advocacy – You act as an internal customer for our platform teams, providing high-quality feedback that shapes the roadmap and improves the overall product ecosystem. AI Native Engineer – You use AI tools effectively, and you’re eager to experiment with new ways of working. You’ll use our tools to evaluate those changes, improving both our workflows and our measurement tools. 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 enables leaders to effectively build AI-integrated engineering teams, align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software efficiently and on time. AI tools alone won’t transform your org—Jellyfish shows you what’s working, what’s not, and how to build high-performing teams that know how to use AI the right way.