Member of Technical Staff, Data Infrastructure

Precision Labs; San Francisco (CA); Hybride; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sapiom is building the data backbone for a real-time payments platform. We are seeking an early data engineer to own end-to-end data infrastructure, define data standards, and establish governance that scales with growth.

You will shape schemas, build pipelines, and enable self-serve analytics across analytics, data science, and product teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years turning raw data into trusted datasets, experience with SQL, Python, Spark, AWS Glue/EMR, DBT, and Airflow, and a strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years transforming raw data into governed, production-ready datasets that business teams can trust.

Responsabilités

• Own data infrastructure end-to-end: design and scale ETL pipelines.
• Define schemas that survive 10x growth and ensure data quality and governance.
• Architect standardized data models enabling self-serve AI-powered insights.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, and DevOps to keep data trustworthy and accessible.
• Instrument pipeline observability and surface key health metrics to stakeholders.

Connaissances

Data governance

Data quality

Ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Outils

SQL

Python

Spark

AWS Glue

EMR

DBT

Airflow

Description du poste

About Sapiom

Sapiom is the end-to-end platform that removes barriers to ship and scale agentic products.

We unify what an agent needs to act in the world — compute and sandboxes, memory, identity, spend controls, storage and queues, monitoring — provisioned together as one thing, not handed over as a framework to assemble yourself.

We have assembled a world-class team with deep infrastructure and payments DNA to build the operating system for machines. Our founder ran payments engineering at Shopify for five years and built an autonomous consumer agent company before that. We raised a $35M Series A led by Dragonfly in August, bringing us to $50M total. Accel led our seed; Menlo Ventures and Anthropic are also behind us.

The models are the brain. We're the spine.

About the Role

This is a foundational infrastructure role at a company where the data layer isn't a back-office function — it's the nervous system of a payments platform processing every agent transaction, policy decision, and risk signal in real time. The right person thrives on ownership, has strong opinions about data quality and governance, and moves with the urgency of someone who knows that bad data costs more than bad code. As an early data engineer, you'll define not just the pipelines but the standards, architecture, and culture of data at Sapiom.

What You Will Do

You'll own Sapiom's data infrastructure end-to-end — designing and scaling ETL pipelines, defining schemas that survive 10x growth, and building the governance and quality frameworks that make data trustworthy across the company. You'll architect standardized data models that enable self-serve AI-powered insights, giving Analytics, Data Science, and product teams the visibility they need to move fast without coming to you for every query. The mandate is broad: pipelines, quality, security, observability, and the cross-functional partnerships that keep it all running.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and optimize production-quality ETL pipelines — owning the full lifecycle from ingestion through availability, with clear quality and SLA standards

• Design data schemas and architect for scale — anticipating 10x data growth and building models that don't require rework when it arrives

• Own data quality, governance, security, and schema design across the platform — setting the standards and making sure they hold

• Develop standardized, self-serve data models that enable AI-powered analytics — reducing friction for partner teams and eliminating one-off data pulls

• Instrument pipeline observability and surface key health metrics to Analytics, Data Science, and DevOps — proactively surfacing issues before they become incidents

• Partner closely with Data Science, Analytics, and DevOps — operating as a force multiplier across teams, not a bottleneck

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record — 5+ years — transforming raw data into governed, well-documented, production-ready datasets that business teams can trust and use

• Deep hands‑on experience building and deploying production data pipelines using SQL, Python, Spark, AWS Glue, EMR, DBT, and Airflow

• Strong command of MPP databases — Snowflake, AWS Redshift, or Teradata — with 3+ years of hands‑on production use

• Proven partnership record with Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, and DevOps teams — someone who treats cross-functional relationships as core to the job, not peripheral to it

• Architectural instincts — able to design schemas and systems that scale gracefully, not just handle today's load

• Comfort operating in an on‑call rotation — including incident response outside regular working hours when the pipeline demands it

• Clear communicator who can translate complex data infrastructure decisions into plain-language insights for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders