Director of Engineering, Data

What You’ll Do

Own BuildOps’ data platform and architecture end to end, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and an ML and streaming strategy that evolves with the business and scales efficiently
Build scalable, repeatable customer and partner data onboarding capabilities that bring data into BuildOps quickly and reliably, reducing time to first value
Run data systems with production grade discipline, including monitoring, alerting, SLAs, incident response, lineage, freshness, and clear ownership for critical datasets
Create the data foundation required for AI and ML products, with accurate, well documented inputs today and the right training, inference, and feature infrastructure as those products mature
Establish governance that supports speed, including access controls, data classification, audit trails, PII handling, and practical data contracts that teams can depend on
Hire, develop, and lead a strong data engineering team, and establish the right operating rhythms across planning, on call, and stakeholder intake
What We Look For

10+ years in data or software engineering, including experience building and scaling teams of 10+ engineers, with a track record of hiring well, growing leaders, and leading through managers as well as individual contributors
Deep hands on experience with modern data platforms, including a cloud warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake or Databricks, dbt and ELT patterns, orchestration tools like Airflow, and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis, with AWS experience strongly preferred
Direct experience building data systems that support production ML use cases, not just analytics, with an understanding of feature stores, training data, real time inference, and the tradeoffs involved in building versus buying ML platform capabilities
A track record of operational excellence in data, including monitoring, SLAs, incident response, and data quality practices applied with the same rigor as customer facing systems
Experience delivering customer facing data products such as reporting, analytics, or APIs in B2B SaaS environments where performance, reliability, and trust matter
Strong architectural judgment, including when to build, when to buy, how to design for change, and how to sequence investments behind validated needs instead of overbuilding
A pragmatic approach to governance, with security and compliance built in, documentation and contracts that stay current, and access models that balance control with self service
Early stage or scale up experience in Series B through D companies is a plus, and experience in vertical SaaS or construction tech is helpful but not required
Who You Are

A builder who is comfortable with ambiguity and greenfield work, and can move quickly, ship an MVP, and still make sound decisions for long term scale
Both hands on and strategic, willing to write code, debug issues, and carry operational responsibility when needed while maintaining a clear multi year vision
You know how to influence across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and the executive team, build trust, communicate clearly, and push back when priorities are misaligned
Able to translate technical decisions into business impact and business goals into technical direction
You have seen this stage of growth before and know what good looks like in a high growth data organization
Compensation

$203,000 – $271,000 base salary range + annual bonus + meaningful equity
What we offer:
Generous equity grant, become an owner in our company!
A comprehensive benefits package
Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
One-time work-from-home allowance
Hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh with hybrid work schedules and lunch provided for in-office days
Company events and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual
Fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic work environment
Opportunities for growth and career advancement
Chance to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions
The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers