Data Engineer II (Remote US)

WHO WE ARE: Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. Serious producers choose Splice Sounds to bring their ideas to life. A subscription to Splice inspires and accelerates creative success for digital music creators with an industry-leading catalog of sounds and samples and an expanding AI stack. With a rent-to-own marketplace of DAWs and plugins, the Splice experience seamlessly integrates into any music production workflow, regardless of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Via Splice, an unparalleled team of sound designers and sample creators are fueling the success of a growing global community of chart-topping producers, students, and DIY creators. HOW WE WORK: At Splice, DISCO is a rallying cry for collaboration, accountability, and unity within our organization; Direct, Inclusive, Splice Together, Creator Centric, and Optimistic. Our shared success depends on our ability to support one another, work well together, and communicate directly. By embracing flexibility and a unified approach, we can navigate anything that’s thrown at us. Splice embraces a culture of remote work. You’ll see your colleagues showing up from across the US and the UK. In order to keep us working well as a team, we have regular communication, including Town Halls, departmental all-hands and get-togethers. When you join Splice, you join a network of colleagues, peers, and collaborators. Are you ready? JOB TITLE: Data Engineer II LOCATION: REMOTE- US THE ROLE: We're looking for a Data Engineer II to join Splice's Data Engineering team and help scale the platform that powers creator payouts, revenue reporting, and product analytics across Splice's product lines. Data Engineering builds and maintains the reliable foundation that makes trusted data possible, enabling teams across Splice to work from a governed, consistent source of truth. We are accountable for the warehouse and pipeline foundation; ingestion, transformations, and the standards and quality guardrails that keep data consistent, timely, and usable. This is a mid-level, high-ownership role: engineers here carry features from technical design through delivery, monitoring, and documentation, and participate in our on-call rotation. The work requires hands-on data engineering experience. Our stack; BigQuery, SQLMesh, Python, Dagster- is distinct from Splice's web engineering stack, and effective contribution requires domain expertise in data pipeline systems, not general software engineering background. TEAM INFORMATION: You'll be joining Splice's Data Engineering team, a small, embedded platform team responsible for the pipelines, transformations, and warehouse infrastructure the rest of the company depends on. Our systems support finance-critical processes (contributor payouts, GAAP revenue reporting), product analytics, and data reliability for customer-facing features like recommendations. We operate with a shared on-call rotation and a strong bias toward observable, well-documented, durable systems. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Pipeline Development & Transformation Build and maintain data models in SQLMesh, including incremental strategies, testing, and documentation Continuously improve and evolve our orchestration and transformation infrastructure as the platform scales Modernize legacy pipeline jobs in Python and SQLMesh, reducing technical debt over time Reliability & Observability Participate in on-call rotation; triage and resolve incidents including ETL failures, data unavailability, and core metric breakage Build introspectable software: define alert thresholds, emit metrics and logs, produce dashboards, and establish closed-loop escalation paths Improve observability across the platform so failures are caught early and resolved quickly Finance & Revenue Pipelines Extend and maintain pipelines powering creator payouts and GAAP-compliant revenue reporting across Splice's product lines Build pipeline support for new revenue streams as Splice launches them Platform Quality & Optim…