Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Native Data Platform

Visible Hands; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence with an AI‑native platform. You will own core data systems, stabilize high-throughput pipelines, and design fast access patterns for dashboards and analytics, enabling AI agents to reason over large datasets.

We seek a senior data engineer with 5+ years of experience, strong Postgres production expertise, and a practical mindset to ship foundational systems that scale with product needs and AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Deep experience operating Postgres in production with high concurrency.
• Strong systems intuition and focus on bottlenecks and tradeoffs.
• Experience designing analytical data architectures and read-optimized schemas.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, high-impact work and chart pragmatic paths forward.
• High ownership mindset; focus on logs, metrics, data correctness and reliability.
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and building foundational systems for others.

Responsibilities

• Own core data systems powering Plot from ingestion to analytics and product surfaces.
• Stabilize high-throughput write paths and improve ingestion reliability.
• Design data access patterns to stay fast under heavy writes and concurrent queries.
• Separate transactional and analytical workloads and define clear system contracts.
• Build read-optimized models including partitioning, rollups, and schemas for AI queries.
• Shape AI-native analytics and guide data platform evolution with RFCs.

Skills

Postgres production

Systems intuition

Analytical data architectures

Ambiguous problem solving

Ownership mindset

Logs & metrics

5+ years experience

No degree requirement

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence with an AI‑native platform. You will own core data systems, stabilize high-throughput pipelines, and design fast access patterns for dashboards and analytics, enabling AI agents to reason over large datasets.

We seek a senior data engineer with 5+ years of experience, strong Postgres production expertise, and a practical mindset to ship foundational systems that scale with product needs and AI capabilities.