About the Role
Lead the development and optimization of data systems that power core business functions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across distributed environments.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement scalable data pipelines for high-volume transactional data
- Design systems to ensure data consistency, availability, and low-latency access
- Collaborate with product and analytics teams to define data requirements
- Evaluate and integrate new data storage and processing technologies
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot production issues
- Establish best practices for data modeling, ETL processes, and schema design
- Mentor engineers in data system design and implementation
- Drive automation of data quality validation and monitoring
- Ensure compliance with data governance and privacy standards
- Optimize query performance across large datasets
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for data platform outages
- Contribute to capacity planning for data infrastructure growth
- Develop documentation for data architectures and workflows
- Support disaster recovery and backup strategies for critical data
- Evaluate trade-offs between different database technologies and architectures
- Implement access controls and data security protocols
- Work closely with DevOps to streamline deployment pipelines
- Promote observability through logging, metrics, and alerting
- Stay current with advancements in distributed data systems
- Drive initiatives to improve data reliability and system uptime
Nice to Have
- Experience with real-time payment or financial transaction systems
- Background in fintech or e-commerce domains
- Contributions to open-source data infrastructure projects
- Experience scaling data platforms to support millions of daily transactions
- Leadership in cross-functional technical initiatives
- Advanced degree in computer science or related field
Compensation
Competitive salary and equity package
Work Arrangement
Remote with flexible hours
Team
Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable systems
Why This Role Matters
The data infrastructure underpins critical business operations, from transaction processing to customer insights. This role ensures the foundation is resilient, efficient, and ready for future growth.
Growth Opportunities
This position offers leadership exposure, influence on technical direction, and the chance to shape the evolution of core data systems.
Available for qualified candidates
