Director, Data Platform & Observability

Gridware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Parental leave

Alternate Mondays off

Off the Grid break

Commuter allowance

Training provided

Job summary

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, seeks a Director of Engineering to lead its company-wide data platforms. This hands-on leadership role will define architecture, set roadmaps, and build a data organization capable of supporting live production systems and federated ownership across many domains.

You will work with high-frequency telemetry, IoT, and observability data from tens of thousands of edge devices, guiding platform migrations, governance, and analytics enablement for

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, including 5+ years in engineering management.

Responsibilities

• Own data platform end to end: ingestion, transformation, raw and sanitized data layers, and overall data architecture.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Lakehouse tooling

Streaming tooling

Databricks

Kafka

Kinesis

Airflow

Terraform

Federated domain ownership

Platform architecture

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Kinesis

Airflow

Terraform

Job description

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, seeks a Director of Engineering to lead its company-wide data platforms. This hands-on leadership role will define architecture, set roadmaps, and build a data organization capable of supporting live production systems and federated ownership across many domains.

You will work with high-frequency telemetry, IoT, and observability data from tens of thousands of edge devices, guiding platform migrations, governance, and analytics enablement for