Senior Data Engineer

Our mission at Solstice Analytics is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Solstice Analytics Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. We have multiple remote roles open supporting timezones across the U.S. Senior Data Engineer We are looking for a Data Engineer – Databricks Support/Admin to join our Data Engineering & Analytics team. In this role, your primary focus will be administering, stabilizing, and scaling our unified Databricks environment across all Solstice Analytics business domains. While Databricks platform ownership is your core responsibility, we expect and actively support team members growing into adjacent data engineering areas — including pipeline development, data modeling, and cross-domain data mesh support — as the team and company scale. What you will do: Primary Focus – Databricks Platform Administration - Own day-to-day administration, configuration, and health of Solstice Analytics's global Databricks environment, serving stakeholders across IT, business, and data science domains. - Manage workspace governance: access controls, cluster policies, cost monitoring, job scheduling, and security configurations. - Support onboarding of new teams and use cases onto the Databricks platform as Solstice Analytics unifies data across Finance, SDM, Commerce, Marketing, and other domains. - Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and cost inefficiencies. - Maintain SLAs for platform availability and incident response across global time zones. - Partner with IT and Data Architecture teams to align platform configurations with Databricks best practices and Solstice Analytics's Data Mesh approach. Cross-functional Growth Areas (expected over time) - Contribute to data pipeline development and Spark workload optimization. - Support data engineers working across domain-specific initiatives (Finance, Membership, HW/SC, etc.). - Assist with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and platform automation. We would love to have you on our team if you have: - 5+ years of experience in data engineering or platform/infrastructure engineering. - Hands-on Databricks administration experience: workspace management, cluster configuration, access control (Unity Catalog preferred), and job orchestration. - Strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed compute fundamentals. - Experience running production data systems on AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, IAM) or equivalent cloud platforms. - Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools and CI/CD practices. - Ability to support and communicate with non-technical stakeholders across multiple business domains. - Self-motivated and comfortable operating with autonomy in a distributed team environment. What Makes You Stand Out - Databricks Certified Administrator or equivalent certification. - Experience with Unity Catalog and data governance at scale. - Familiarity with Data Mesh principles and domain-oriented platform design. - Experience in a high-growth, multi-stakeholder data environment. Benefits At Solstice Analytics, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Solstice Analytics has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health. What we offer: Competitive salary and equity packages Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources An Solstice Analytics Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off Paid sick leave and parental leave Solstice Analytics takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. Region 1 $172,550 - $203,000 Region 2 $158,950 - $187,000 Region 3 $147,900 - $174,000 A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location. We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI) Solstice Analytics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Solstice Analytics are considered without regard to age,