Data Engineer for AI-Powered Data Platform (Remote)

11x AI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

11x AI Inc. in San Francisco is hiring a Data Engineer to own and extend our customer data ingestion platform and data pipelines powering AI products.

You’ll work across data engineering, backend systems, and AI, building foundational data infrastructure from first principles. The role values founders' mindset, urgency, and ability to operate in ambiguity while delivering reliable, scalable systems that power AI workers and customer knowledge data.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• Strong production-grade data systems and pipelines experience.
• Experience with Python and TypeScript.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals beyond traditional data engineering.
• High agency and proactive mindset.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building without a playbook.
• Strong systems thinking and architectural intuition.
• Ability to balance speed with long-term scalability.
• Strong problem-solving and end-to-end ownership.
• Eagerness to grow with expanding scope and ownership.
• Excitement about AI-native workflows and software development.

Responsibilities

• Own and extend our customer data ingestion platform.
• Build and maintain large-scale data pipelines powering AI products and customer workflows.
• Design systems for syncing customer data across external platforms, CRMs, and third-party systems.
• Help architect our future data lake, retrieval layer, and data infrastructure strategy.
• Build ingestion and querying systems for lead, account, enrichment, and customer knowledge data.
• Create infrastructure that gives our AI workers access to information to reason, act, and improve.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to unlock new AI product capabilities.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and scalability across our data stack.
• Contribute across backend systems and infrastructure, not just traditional data engineering projects.
• Push ideas into production quickly instead of over-optimizing in planning phases.

Skills

4+ years exp

Python

Typescript

Backend engineering

Systems thinking

Ambiguity tolerance

Problem solving

Tools

ClickHouse

Airbyte

Job description

11x AI Inc. in San Francisco is hiring a Data Engineer to own and extend our customer data ingestion platform and data pipelines powering AI products.

You’ll work across data engineering, backend systems, and AI, building foundational data infrastructure from first principles. The role values founders' mindset, urgency, and ability to operate in ambiguity while delivering reliable, scalable systems that power AI workers and customer knowledge data.