Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Effective communication skills, Kubernetes-K8s, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• As a vital member of Crunchbase’s technical leadership, you will not only be part of shaping but actively lead and direct the future of the data organization, influencing key technological decisions to align with and support our evolving business needs.
• Your role will involve architecting and constructing robust systems dedicated to meeting the diverse data requirements at Crunchbase.
• This includes providing crucial support to our products and internal stakeholders, such as data scientists and analytics teams.
• Collaboration will be a cornerstone of your responsibilities as you work closely with other engineers and product stakeholders to define and execute our comprehensive data roadmap.
• Your leadership will extend to ensuring the currency and relevance of our tools and technologies, actively guiding the Data Engineering Guild to adopt and uphold standards that contribute to the continual advancement of our data capabilities.

What We’re Looking For:

• You have 6+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• You have a solid understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
• You are a Python expert.
• You are proficient with SQL
• You may have experience with Kubernetes Kafka, data warehouse, or Airflow. If not, you are enthusiastic about learning.
• You have experience in building data pipelines, or supporting machine learning algorithms in production.
• You keep up to date with current trends and technologies. You are interested in the state of the art development in data engineering and machine learning ops.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You care about agile software, cross teams collaborations and data driven development and evaluation

Salary Range: $215,000-240,000. You may also be entitled to receive equity and benefits.

What Crunchbase Offers:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Remote first policy
• Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities
• Monthly fitness / mental health reimbursement
• 14 weeks of fully-paid time off for new parents
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off
• Incredible medical, vision and dental benefits for employees and their families
• Free One Medical Group membership for employees and their families
• 401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in
• Monthly internet stipend
• Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space
• Annual carbon offset
• Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards
• A team of creative, transparent entrepreneurs driven to accomplish our mission

At Crunchbase, we value team members who are passionate and enthusiastic about what we're building here. We believe there is no perfect candidate, and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. If you're passionate about Crunchbase and looking to learn and grow, then we look forward to reviewing your application!

Crunchbase does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Every day our team is honored to work with entrepreneurs and innovators from every corner of the globe, and we aim to build a team that reflects the diversity of our customers. Each individual at Crunchbase brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides a better service to its customers, and helps us all grow and learn as individuals.