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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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