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$123,760–$200,200/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable components for the data platform enabling high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
  • Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics and contribute to scalable event-driven applications.
  • Own and operate services in production, including on-call rotations, and lead cross-functional initiatives while mentoring peers.

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$175,000–$210,000/yr
US

  • Design and build the core data infrastructure powering Vantage's platform.
  • Own architecture decisions for systems built on ClickHouse, Temporal, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
  • Drive reliability, performance, and scalability initiatives across the platform as data volume and customer load grows

Vantage is the FinOps platform built for modern engineering teams. They are a high-output team of ~50 employees based in New York City with a remote-friendly culture.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Operate and evolve multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure, diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes.
  • Define and evolve the technical direction for operating shared database systems at scale, leading complex initiatives and reliability investments.
  • Mentor and support engineers, improve systems toil with automation, and partner with database and platform teams to align on strategy.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, featuring scalable metrics, logs, and traces and thrive in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything.

Global

  • Lead a team of engineers building Postscript’s Customer Data Platform from the ground up
  • Collaborate with product managers, data science, business stakeholders, designers, and other engineering teams to plan and execute work
  • Consistently provide ongoing technical mentorship and general professional development for your direct reports and other engineers at Postscript

Postscript gives e-commerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program. They are a 100% remote organization with more than 250 employees, backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

$160,000–$195,000/yr
US

  • Drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms.
  • Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions and code reviews.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers.

Firstup improves the employee experience at every moment that matters, large and small. As the communication pipeline for the world's workforce, they serve 40 of the Fortune 100 companies, reaching and connecting more than 17 million employees daily.

$200,000–$240,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead and grow a team of data engineers responsible for SentiLink’s data platform and infrastructure.
  • Define and drive the technical vision for data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving systems.
  • Design and evolve scalable data pipelines (batch and real-time) to support product and data science use cases.

SentiLink provides identity and risk solutions. They empower institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. They have grown quickly and are backed by world-class investors.

US

  • Own organizational-wide data architecture, defining standards and designs.
  • Design and develop data pipelines, integrations, and platform features.
  • Partner with product managers to define new data features and capabilities.

They offer a connected equipment platform for managing mixed assets. The company values quality, continuous learning, and collaboration within a dynamic team environment.

$163,000–$247,000/yr
US Canada

  • Architect, build, and refine our infrastructure and tools that enable other teams to work with data.
  • Efficiently handle vast amounts of clickstream, database, and third party application data, processing in batch and real-time
  • Take full ownership of the solutions you build, working with stakeholders to develop requirements, implement solutions, monitor production, and troubleshoot problems that arise.

Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy. They handle payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR, so owners can focus on their craft and customers. Gusto supports more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and they’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers they serve.

$220,000–$240,000/yr
Global

  • Lead and develop a team of talented data engineers, providing cultural and technical mentorship and ensuring quality delivery.
  • Design and build highly available, petabyte-scale data infrastructure, including ETL pipelines and data models for blockchain analytics.
  • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to plan roadmaps, resolve production incidents, and drive work based on measurable outcomes and KPIs.

TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto businesses detect and disrupt crypto-related fraud. The Series C company, backed by major investors, is a distributed-first organization with a high-velocity, high-ownership culture focused on mission-driven problem solving.

$140,000–$160,000/yr
US

  • Design and build mission critical data pipelines with a highly scalable distributed architecture.
  • Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, simplifying self-service support for business stakeholders.
  • Build and support reusable framework to ingest, integration and provision data

StockX is a Detroit-based technology leader focused on the online market for sneakers, apparel, accessories, electronics, collectibles, trading cards, and more. They employ 1,000 people across offices and verification centers around the world and their platform connects buyers and sellers using dynamic pricing mechanics.

US

  • Design and implement core backend systems and integrations that power the product.
  • Design and build our data platform (orchestration, pipelines, developer workflows)
  • Create scalable systems for data ingestion, transformation, and access

Avantos is building the AI-native operating system for financial services, transforming fragmented data into a single, intelligent system. They power workflows, automation, and decision-making as a product-led, fast-moving team in AI, fintech, and infrastructure.

$205,000–$220,000/yr
US

  • Partner with Sales and Field Engineering to design and architect complex, enterprise-grade solutions tailored to customer needs.
  • Lead the implementation of custom solutions within customer environments across multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
  • Optimize solutions for performance, scalability, and reliability in production environments.

Striim is a unified data integration and streaming platform that connects clouds, data, and applications. We believe and expect all of our employees to operate as one with unlimited potential and dignity.

$190,000–$220,000/yr
US

  • Architect and scale a high-performance data lakehouse on GCP using tools like StarRocks, Apache Iceberg, BigQuery, and Kafka.
  • Design, build, and optimize distributed query engines such as Trino, Spark, or Snowflake to support complex analytical workloads.
  • Develop and orchestrate robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, and GCP-native services like Dataflow and Composer.

TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. They are a Series C company with $220M in funding, operate as a distributed-first team across global hubs, and foster a high-velocity, high-ownership culture that values speed, experimentation, and impactful problem-solving.

US

  • Design and develop multi-threaded asynchronous replication systems with parallel streaming capabilities
  • Build object-level delta replication with checkpointing and resume functionality
  • Implement secure data transfer mechanisms using TLS 1.3 with mutual authentication

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing. DDN's cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data.

$150,000–$190,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale high-throughput streaming pipelines.
  • Model and deliver high-quality, production-grade real estate datasets.
  • Strengthen data quality and observability.

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, they are a Series C company on track to hit $100M in annual recurring revenue in the next six months. They are a global team ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row.

US

  • Lead and manage a team of ~6 data engineers, driving execution, performance, and career development.
  • Own Kin’s data platform, including ingestion, storage, transformation, pipeline orchestration, and governance.
  • Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures using tools like Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, and Airflow.

Kin simplifies homeowners' lives with smarter insurance, expanding to meet all homeowner needs. They employ Kinfolk across 35+ states and are recognized for growth, customer satisfaction, and a focus on long-term sustainability, fostering a culture of meaningful work and real impact.

Global

  • Provide technical leadership for our core ingestion and processing pipelines, anticipating future bottlenecks and ensuring systems scale smoothly
  • Process and manipulate telemetry data at scale, avoiding single points of failure while delivering novel approaches to telemetry volume management
  • Own platform reliability — proactively identifying risks before they become incidents and fostering a security-first culture

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native company building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. They are backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability.

Spain 6w PTO

  • Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
  • Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes.
  • Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20M users of Grafana, its open source visualization tool. Grafana Labs helps more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, and its team thrives in an innovation-driven environment.

$175,000–$215,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Implement the core components of our data platform, including data modeling, pipelines, and retrieval-ready storage layers.
  • Build operationally excellent systems, incorporating automated testing, deep observability, and robust failure handling.
  • Model complex business domains by defining clear entities, event histories, and reusable datasets that reflect real-world logic.

Campminder provides digital transformation solutions to the summer camp industry. The company has 85+ employees and is known for its values-led culture and employee experience, having been listed on Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work for 8 consecutive years.

$115,000–$205,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate critical data infrastructure platforms.
  • Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of platform services.
  • Drive improvements in developer productivity through automation and tooling.

Angi helps homeowners connect with reliable professionals for home service projects. With over 2,800 employees worldwide, they foster an environment where homeowners, pros, and employees benefit from streamlined services.

Europe

  • Lead a multidisciplinary data organization, hiring, and developing career frameworks.
  • Own the architecture and delivery of the enterprise data platform across cloud environments.
  • Build the data infrastructure required for AI/ML workloads across all enterprise data assets.

SwingDev is the Polish branch of Hippo Insurance, a fast-growing InsurTech product company focused on making home insurance smarter using technology. They value top-tier talent, a human-centric approach, and a culture of trust, empathy, and positivity.