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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Babylist'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Babylist

- **Company:** Babylist
- **Location:** Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/babylist/jobs/6216378004

## Job description

What the Role Is

The Data team at Babylist powers decision-making across the entire business — from product growth to operations to AI. This is a senior individual contributor role on the Data Engineering team, sitting at the intersection of platform thinking and AI-native tooling. You'll own the architecture and systems that make data engineering itself more scalable — not just the pipelines, but the harnesses and agentic scaffolding that generate, test, and maintain them. You'll work cross-functionally with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to keep Babylist's data infrastructure reliable and ahead of where the business is going.

## Who You Are

- Experienced building production AI/LLM systems — RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, tool integrations (e.g., MCP servers) that real users depend on, not just prototypes
- Platform-minded — you see repetitive data engineering work as a system design problem and build the scaffolding to automate it
- Deeply fluent in Python and production-grade data engineering, with 7+ years building systems that hold up at scale
- Proficient with Airflow and dbt — you understand data modeling and ETL principles, not just the tooling
- Comfortable in AWS — you've provisioned and managed cloud data resources across EC2, S3, Lambda, and EKS
- Familiar with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data warehouses
- Able to work cross-functionally with analysts and data scientists — translating their needs into infrastructure that actually serves them
- You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next.
- You're genuinely excited about what AI can do - not just as a concept, but as something you want to get your hands on. At Babylist, every team uses AI daily, and we're looking for people who lean in.

## How You Will Make An Impact

- Build and scale data pipelines for ingestion into Snowflake — with a focus on reliability and performance across a $750M+ e-commerce business
- Design and ship the agentic systems that perform data engineering work — pipeline generation, testing, and maintenance as automated systems, not one-off builds
- Develop and maintain ML pipelines that help data scientists operationalize models and integrate them with our data infrastructure
- Implement and improve data monitoring across complex, multi-system user journeys
- Collaborate with Analytics Engineers on data modeling and the reliability of shared data assets
- Partner with product, analyst, and ML teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions — from ingestion to advanced analytics and AI

## Why This Role

- You're building the meta-layer — not just pipelines, but the systems that build pipelines; it's a rare scope for a data engineering role
- The data infrastructure is solid; you're extending and automating something that works, not inheriting a mess
- AI is core to the mandate here, not a future aspiration — agentic data engineering is a real part of the roadmap, not a stretch goal
- You'll have direct influence on how a 9M+ user platform scales its data systems through a pre-IPO growth moment.

## Who We Are

Babylist is the leading platform for expecting and new families. More than 10 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, guidance, and expert recommendations. As a modern, AI-forward tech company, Babylist has expanded from a universal registry into a full ecosystem — the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, Babylist Money, NYC and LA showrooms, branded content, and more — generating $750M in revenue in 2025. Building the generational brand in baby, Babylist is reshaping the $235B kids and baby market and helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step.

Our Ways of Working

Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U.S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up.

## Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

Our Culture

- We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge
- We believe in exceptional management, and we invest in the tools and the time to connect with colleagues
- We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives
- AI is part of how we work, not a side experiment. You'll have leading tools like Claude and ChatGPT from day one, with no waiting on access, so the busywork gets handled and your judgment goes where it counts

Growth & Development

- Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
- We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
- We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement

## Benefits

- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
- Generous paid parental leave and PTO
- Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
- Remote work stipend to set up your office
- Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Important Notices

Recorded Interviews. Babylist uses an interview recording tool to record and transcribe interviews for evaluation purposes in accordance with applicable privacy laws. By participating in an interview, you consent to this recording and transcription.

Interview Integrity. AI is part of how we work at Babylist — we expect you to use it too. Your application and interviews should still reflect you and your own thinking. We'll tell you when AI is encouraged. Misrepresentation at any stage may result in removal from consideration for this and future roles.

How We Review Applications We use AI throughout our hiring process to help review, screen, and assess applications. These tools support our team's review; they do not replace it, and every hiring decision is made by a person.

Connections at Babylist. If you have a family member or close personal relationship with a current Babylist employee, please let your recruiter know. This helps us keep our process fair and transparent for everyone.

Protect Yourself from Scams. All official outreach comes from the Babylist Talent Team via @babylist.com email addresses only. We will never ask for payment or personal financial information. If you receive outreach via WhatsApp, Telegram, or a non-Babylist email — it's not us. Verify open roles at babylist.com/careers.

## About Babylist

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Babylist is the leading baby registry and comprehensive parenting platform that helps expecting parents discover, register for, and purchase everything they need for their growing family.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Emeryville, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Natalie Gordon

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Baby products (commerce), consumer media, digital health & wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C – expecting and new parents (primarily first-time parents in the US and Canada)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Ensure expecting parents get exactly what they need. Help parents celebrate every moment & milestone. Make finding and registering for essentials a breeze. Provide honest, reliable and unbiased information. Offer support, connection and a sense of belonging." [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/our-story)

## Products & Services
- **Baby Registry**: The core product – a universal registry allowing parents to add items from any store, plus Babylist’s own shop. Over 50% of first-time parents use Babylist. [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/our-story)
- **Babylist Shop**: Direct ecommerce marketplace for baby essentials, integrated with the registry.
- **Babylist Health**: Provides insurance-covered breast pumps and other health-related baby products. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/babylist)
- **Expectful**: A health and wellness app for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care (acquired in 2023). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/babylist)
- **The Push**: A branded content studio that partners with major baby brands to create sponsored content. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/babylist)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not publicly available; the company states it is “profitable, established and growing.” [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)<br>Total Funding – At least $40.65M (Seed $650K in 2013, Series C $40M in 2021 led by Norwest Venture Partners). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/babylist)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Norwest Venture Partners (lead in Series C). Other investors in earlier rounds not fully disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 9M people purchase from Babylist annually; 59M monthly pageviews; 1.2M TikTok followers; 300 total employees; acquired Expectful in 2023; expanding into health and content verticals. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/babylist) [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Dominant market share**: Over 50% of first-time parents use Babylist for their registry, creating strong brand trust and network effects.
- **Comprehensive ecosystem**: Combines registry, ecommerce, health products, wellness app, and content studio – a one-stop shop for the entire parenting journey.
- **Data and personalization**: Large-scale user data (9M+ annual purchasers) enables personalized recommendations and product insights.
- **Remote-first, profitable business model**: Profitable operation allows sustained investment without pressure to monetize aggressively.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion beyond registry**: Growing Babylist Health (breast pumps, fertility support) and Expectful (wellness) to capture more of the $320B global baby products market.
- **Content and community**: Building brand authority through The Push content studio and social media presence (TikTok, blog) to drive organic acquisition.
- **Technology and AI**: Hiring senior product managers and engineers focused on AI-powered recommendations and discovery (e.g., Staff Product Manager, Recommendations & Discovery). [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/babylist)

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from home or from hubs in Emeryville, Austin, Boston, LA, or Canada. Home-office stipend provided. Company-wide offsites 1-2 times per year. [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)
- **Stability + growth**: The company is profitable, established, and still expanding – less startup risk with significant upside.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: 100% paid medical/vision/dental, 401k matching, equity, fertility coverage with $5,000 reproductive care stipend, generous Babylist Shop discount, flexible PTO, 9 wellness days, and 10 paid holidays. [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)
- **High-performance culture**: Values include “Commit, act, deliver!”, direct feedback, and a growth mindset. Emphasis on ownership and impact. [babylist.com](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)
- **Meaningful mission**: Work directly impacts millions of growing families, making the parenting journey easier and less stressful.

## Sources
1. [babylist.com - Our Story](https://www.babylist.com/our-story)
2. [babylist.com - Careers](https://www.babylist.com/about/careers)
3. [builtin.com - Babylist Profile](https://builtin.com/company/babylist)
4. [linkedin.com - Babylist Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/babylist)
5. [greenhouse.io - Babylist Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/babylist)

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