Software Integration Engineer San Francisco, CA Full-Time, On-Site $140k-$160k annually + equity

Tenkara Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Meaningful equity

Job summary

A tech startup focusing on manufacturing solutions is seeking an experienced data engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, working closely with external systems and clients. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in ETL and data engineering tools like Airflow and dbt, as well as proficiency in Python and SQL. The role offers competitive pay of $140,000-$160,000 annually plus equity, alongside benefits like health insurance and unlimited PTO. Join a dynamic team making an impact in American manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with a focus on data engineering.
• Experience with data pipelines and ETL tools like Airflow, dbt, or custom frameworks.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and translating technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with ERPs, freight APIs, and client systems.
• Design and operate ETL pipelines that ingest and transform external data.
• Own data quality and validation, ensuring data is clean and reliable.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

Python

SQL

Communication with non-technical stakeholders

Supply chain knowledge

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Fivetran

TypeScript

Job description

You're an experienced data engineer with expertise in building pipelines, working with messy real-world data, and translating technical concepts for customers.

About Us

At Tenkara, we're building an operating system for process manufacturers, starting with agents that run procurement, logistics, and demand planning.

American manufacturing has never had a greater opportunity to reclaim global competitiveness. But operations teams are underwater, drowning in manual coordination work. Suppliers managed over email. Freight tracked through calls. Compliance scattered across spreadsheets. Mid‑market manufacturers can't scale operations without scaling headcount proportionally.

Tenkara deploys agents that execute these workflows autonomously, bringing real automation to American manufacturing. Our agents enable businesses to make smarter decisions and faster transactions.

Culture

Build the absolute best product, bar nothing. Move fast and learn by shipping. Best ideas win. Extreme ownership. Steep trajectory for those who prove themselves. What we're building matters: helping American manufacturers compete globally.

We're backed by some of the very best supply chain and enterprise software investors. We're live with manufacturers processing real transactions right now. Founded by a serial entrepreneur who built and ran manufacturing plants from the ground up.

About the Role

You will own how our platform connects to the outside world: ERPs, freight systems, supplier data feeds, and customer environments. You'll build data pipelines that hold up when the source data doesn't, and work directly with customers to understand their systems and bring them onto ours. What you learn there shapes what we build next.

What You’ll Take On

Build and maintain integrations with ERPs, freight APIs, and client systems.

Design and operate ETL pipelines that ingest, transform, and normalize external data.

Partner directly with customers during onboarding to map their data to our platform.

Own data quality and validation, ensuring external data is clean, consistent, and reliable.

Build tooling to accelerate integration development and reduce onboarding time.

Document integration patterns and create runbooks for common scenarios.

Collaborate with platform and product engineers to define how external data flows through the system.

What You Have

Strong software engineering experience with a focus on data engineering.

Strong skills in data pipelines and ETL: you've worked with tools like Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, or custom pipeline frameworks.

Experience with data modeling and schema design for complex, messy real-world data.

Comfortable working directly with customers—you can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Familiarity with common enterprise systems: ERPs, TMS/freight platforms, EDI, or similar.

Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ideally TypeScript.

You're resourceful and pragmatic. You know when to build custom vs. leverage existing tools.

Supply chain or logistics domain experience.

What We Offer

$140,000-$160,000 annually + meaningful equity (you would be one of the first 5 technical hires).

Health, dental, vision following probationary period. Unlimited PTO.

Hard, important problems. Foundational ownership. Direct collaboration with experienced, well-backed founders. Meaningful equity in a company with strong tailwinds.