Cohere
Senior Staff Data Engineer
$275K–$450K
Toronto +6 · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Toronto
San Francisco
Canada
United States
New York
Ottawa
Montreal - Experience
- 10+ years across data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics platform work; strong management track record leading data platform or infrastructure teams.
About the job
Leads Cohere’s Data Foundation team and roadmap, owning the governed data platform, analytics infrastructure, reliability, and agentic analytics program.
What you'll do
- Hire and develop data and infrastructure engineers, set technical standards, and lead the Data Foundation roadmap.
- Own the data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, warehouse modeling, analytics serving, governance, and reliability.
- Lead the agentic analytics program, including integrating semantic layers with an internal analytics agent and building an evaluation harness.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data infrastructure, or analytics platform work, with a strong track record leading data platform or infrastructure teams.
- Production experience with cloud data warehouses, workflow orchestration, and infrastructure as code.
- Depth in data modeling, including fact and dimension tables, raw/core/mart separation, and semantic layers.
- Experience setting and delivering a cross-functional roadmap, with operational excellence and exposure to data security and governance.
Pay
$275K – $450K USD base salary
Tools
BigQuery, Snowflake, Airflow, Terraform, dbt, Cloud Run, Looker
AI focus
Lead an internal analytics agent program, connect it to the semantic layer, build an evaluation harness to measure accuracy, and assess AI for production use; apply similar discipline to automating data engineering work.
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