4h ago
Founding Data Engineer
Northern Virginia / Washington DC region
$100k-$200k / year
full-timesenior Remoteai-ml
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll design and build the data backbone for an AI recruiting platform, owning scalable data pipelines and search infrastructure. This is a high-ownership role where you'll shape the architecture from day one, with direct customer impact and zero legacy systems.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Design and build batch and streaming data pipelines for core platform
- Develop ingestion, enrichment, and indexing workflows across data types
- Optimize PostgreSQL for advanced SQL, replication, and query performance
- Manage search and retrieval pipelines in OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
📋 Requirements
- 5+ years in data engineering or backend/data platform engineering in production
- Strong Python programming skills
- Deep PostgreSQL experience including advanced SQL, schema design, query tuning, sharding, replication
- Strong OpenSearch/Elasticsearch experience including indexing strategy, search performance, relevance tuning at very large scale
✨ Nice to Have
- Experience with Kafka or event-driven systems
- Experience with vector search or AI/ML data pipelines
- Experience with workflow orchestration and async processing
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO (14 days accrued annually)
- 💰 Equity: 0.1–0.75% early-stage equity
- 📚 Learning: $2,000+ per year for courses, conferences, books
- 💻 Equipment: New MacBook Pro, monitor, monthly tools budget
- 🏥 Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision coverage
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