# Senior Data Engineer at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: Data
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $166K–207K
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Skills: Engineering, Careers Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/6354c156-220b-4323-baaf-143c2b8ab149

## Description

ABOUT HANDSHAKE

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

 - Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel

 - Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions

 - Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders

 - Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

 


ABOUT THE ROLE

Handshake is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that moves data reliably across our career marketplace and AI products. On the Data and ML Platform team, you will own the systems that orchestrate batch workloads and deliver timely, trustworthy data to engineers, analysts, and product teams.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to shape Handshake's data infrastructure strategy. You will set the technical direction for our workflow orchestration platform (Airflow), data ing

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