{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"33423cfa5ea9d0e1f5b67e57","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/33423cfa5ea9d0e1f5b67e57","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/33423cfa5ea9d0e1f5b67e57","title":"Staff / Principal Data Engineer","description":"About Orum\n\nOrum’s AI-powered suite frees salespeople to do what they do best: connect, listen, and sell. Our products gives sales teams everything they need to connect faster, sell smarter, and grow revenue. From intelligent dialing and real-time conversation insights to AI-driven coaching and virtual sales floors, Orum is powering thousands of sales teams to have more meaningful conversations and turn every call into measurable impact. Companies who use Orum connect 5x faster and book millions in new pipeline every month.\n\nWe are a team of builders and dreamers creating a future where work feels more meaningful and connected. If you’re excited to change how the world sells, join us. For more information, visit https://www.orum.com/\n\nThe Role\n\nWe're building the next generation of Orum's data platform, including a modern analytics stack powered by ClickHouse, BigQuery, dbt, and Looker. This platform supports customer-facing analytics, internal business intelligence, product decision-making, and future AI-powered products.\n\nWe're looking for a Principal/Staff Data Engineer to own this ecosystem end-to-end, a foundational data hire with broad responsibility across data engineering (~70%) and analytics/BI (~30%). You'll own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of our data platform, working closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, Go-to-Market, and Operations to build scalable data systems and a trusted analytics layer the whole company can use.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nDefine and drive Orum's data platform architecture and technical roadmap\n\nBuild and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines from PostgreSQL, application systems, and event streams into ClickHouse, BigQuery, and other analytical systems\n\nDesign robust dbt transformation layers and reusable, well-documented data models\n\nOwn the reliability, performance, cost, and scalability of ClickHouse and BigQuery workloads\n\nBuild real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, product, and AI use cases, including large-scale event, call, transcript, and conversational data\n\nEstablish standards for data quality, testing, lineage, governance, and observability\n\nOwn Orum's Looker environment end-to-end, including LookML models, explores, dashboards, permissions, and performance\n\nDevelop a trusted semantic layer with consistent metric and dimension definitions company-wide\n\nPartner with Product, Finance, GTM, and Operations to translate business questions into scalable data models, dashboards, and self-service analytics\n\nSupport high-impact ad hoc analysis and help establish processes for dashboard ownership, metric governance, and data literacy\n\nWhat we're looking for\n\n8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related data roles\n\nDeep expertise in SQL, data modeling, dimensional modeling, and analytics-oriented schema design\n\nHands-on experience with dbt and modern ELT architectures\n\nStrong experience with analytical databases and warehouses such as ClickHouse and BigQuery\n\nExperience owning or administering Looker in production, including LookML development and performance optimization\n\nExperience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar\n\nStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and data platform architecture\n\nAbility to operate with high ownership, drive ambiguous initiatives independently, and communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences alike\n\nBonus if you have:\n\nDeep experience operating ClickHouse at scale\n\nExperience owning or migrating a Looker implementation\n\nExperience with product analytics or customer-facing analytics platforms\n\nFamiliarity with LLM infrastructure, embeddings, RAG systems, or AI data pipelines\n\nExperience with conversational, telephony, or other large-scale unstructured datasets\n\nExperience in high-growth startup environments\n\nCompany Values\n\nExcellence - Deliver high-quality work across every function\nNo Jerks - Build a team that's respectful, inclusive, and collaborative\nAccountability - Own outcomes and follow through\nIntegrity - Always act honestly with customers, partners, and each other\nStewardship - Manage our resources responsibility for sustainable growth\nGreat Ideas Win - Innovation thrives when the best ideas lead, no matter where they come from\n\nBenefits and Perks (FTE)\n\nFlexible Vacation Policy\n30+ paid holidays annually, including observed holidays, the first Friday of every month off and a two-week year-end holiday break.\nMeaningful stock options in Orum\n90% coverage for employees and dependents for healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans\nComprehensive Life & Disability package\nParental leave for the primary or the secondary\n$1k equipment reimbursement for work-related items that's yours to keep\nCompany retreats and meetups for all employees to connect in person\nCompany ERG - Women Of Orum (WOO)\n\nOrum Is An Equal Opportunity Employer\n\nWe're committed to continually adding to our diverse team that represents various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@orum.com. In short, we want you to join in on the ride if you're talented for one of our roles, with no other qualifiers.\n\nOrum Is An Equal Opportunity Employer\n\nWe're committed to continually adding to our diverse team that represents various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 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You'll own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of our data platform, working closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, Go-to-Market, and Operations to build scalable data systems and a trusted analytics layer the whole company can use.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nDefine and drive Orum's data platform architecture and technical roadmap\n\nBuild and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines from PostgreSQL, application systems, and event streams into ClickHouse, BigQuery, and other analytical systems\n\nDesign robust dbt transformation layers and reusable, well-documented data models\n\nOwn the reliability, performance, cost, and scalability of ClickHouse and BigQuery workloads\n\nBuild real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, product, and AI use cases, including large-scale event, call, transcript, and conversational data\n\nEstablish standards for data quality, testing, lineage, governance, and observability\n\nOwn Orum's Looker environment end-to-end, including LookML models, explores, dashboards, permissions, and performance\n\nDevelop a trusted semantic layer with consistent metric and dimension definitions company-wide\n\nPartner with Product, Finance, GTM, and Operations to translate business questions into scalable data models, dashboards, and self-service analytics\n\nSupport high-impact ad hoc analysis and help establish processes for dashboard ownership, metric governance, and data literacy\n\nWhat we're looking for\n\n8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related data roles\n\nDeep expertise in SQL, data modeling, dimensional modeling, and analytics-oriented schema design\n\nHands-on experience with dbt and modern ELT architectures\n\nStrong experience with analytical databases and warehouses such as ClickHouse and BigQuery\n\nExperience owning or administering Looker in production, including LookML development and performance optimization\n\nExperience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar\n\nStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and data platform architecture\n\nAbility to operate with high ownership, drive ambiguous initiatives independently, and communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences alike\n\nBonus if you have:\n\nDeep experience operating ClickHouse at scale\n\nExperience owning or migrating a Looker implementation\n\nExperience with product analytics or customer-facing analytics platforms\n\nFamiliarity with LLM infrastructure, embeddings, RAG systems, or AI data pipelines\n\nExperience with conversational, telephony, or other large-scale unstructured datasets\n\nExperience in high-growth startup environments\n\nCompany Values\n\nExcellence - Deliver high-quality work across every function\nNo Jerks - Build a team that's respectful, inclusive, and collaborative\nAccountability - Own outcomes and follow through\nIntegrity - Always act honestly with customers, partners, and each other\nStewardship - Manage our resources responsibility for sustainable growth\nGreat Ideas Win - Innovation thrives when the best ideas lead, no matter where they come from\n\nBenefits and Perks (FTE)\n\nFlexible Vacation Policy\n30+ paid holidays annually, including observed holidays, the first Friday of every month off and a two-week year-end holiday break.\nMeaningful stock options in Orum\n90% coverage for employees and dependents for healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans\nComprehensive Life & Disability package\nParental leave for the primary or the secondary\n$1k equipment reimbursement for work-related items that's yours to keep\nCompany retreats and meetups for all employees to connect in person\nCompany ERG - Women Of Orum (WOO)\n\nOrum Is An Equal Opportunity Employer\n\nWe're committed to continually adding to our diverse team that represents various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 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