Founding Data Engineer — Architect Core Data Platform

Embedding VC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equity options

High autonomy

Job summary

A leading AI company is looking for a Founding Data Engineer to build and own the core data platform that supports product and leadership decision-making. This role involves designing data pipelines, maintaining data warehouse architecture, and ensuring data integrity across systems. The ideal candidate will have over five years of experience in data engineering, strong SQL and Python skills, and a proven track record in building data systems. This position offers a competitive salary in a hybrid work setup with meaningful equity options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Proven experience building data platforms or warehouses from 0 → 1.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, writing clean, production-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core data pipelines for product events and payments.
• Define and maintain the data warehouse architecture.
• Establish and own the single source of truth for product metrics.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Data reliability

ETL/ELT design

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Airflow

Job description

A leading AI company is looking for a Founding Data Engineer to build and own the core data platform that supports product and leadership decision-making. This role involves designing data pipelines, maintaining data warehouse architecture, and ensuring data integrity across systems. The ideal candidate will have over five years of experience in data engineering, strong SQL and Python skills, and a proven track record in building data systems. This position offers a competitive salary in a hybrid work setup with meaningful equity options.