Data Engineer

X4 Engineering; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Health

Vision

Dental

Life Insurance

Commuter Benefits

Unlimited Time off

401k matched

Job summary

X4 Engineering in San Francisco is seeking a senior individual contributor who loves coding and owns end-to-end data platform work. You will join small teams of 1–3 engineers to design and build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and AI-driven systems across industries.

You will personally deploy and operate production systems, own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability. The role favors engineers who thrive in high-ownership environments and can operate autonomously

Qualifications

• Actively writing production code today.
• Experience wearing multiple hats (application + infra + deployment).
• Strong preference for small, high-ownership environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and products.
• Deploy end-to-end data platforms across cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Own deployments, monitoring, reliability, and CI/CD across environments.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Production systems

Autonomy

Job description

They are a data centric consultancy with an office in San Francisco that work across tech, healthcare/biotech, finance, energy, real estate, and startups - building complex data platforms, products, and AI-driven systems.

The Role

A hands-on, senior individual contributor role for engineers who still love coding. You’ll work in small teams (often 1–3 engineers) to design and build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and products across industries.

What You’ll Work On

• End-to-end data platform deployments (ETL, warehouses, BI across AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Partnering with startups to build data-intensive products from 0 to 1

What We’re Looking For

Hands-on builder

• Actively writing production code today
• Not removed into management or purely architectural roles

Infrastructure ownership

• Personally deployed and operated production systems
• Cloud, CI/CD, scaling, monitoring, reliability

End-to-end ownership

• Taken products from idea to launch to ongoing operation
• Comfortable operating autonomously with stakeholders
• Strong preference for backgrounds in smaller, high-ownership environments
• Experience wearing multiple hats (application + infrastructure + deployment)

Why Join

• High autonomy and real technical ownership
• Variety of industries and problems
• Opportunity to shape a fast-scaling consultancy

Location: San Francisco (5 days a week on-site)

Salary: $160k-$210k + 10-20% bonus + equity + sign on bonus

Benefits: Full Health, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Unlimited Time off, 401k matched.