Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data

The RoleWe are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead data architecture across our platform. This is a senior individual contributor role with two tightly coupled responsibilities: defining and unifying the canonical business data model that underpins our product, and taking ownership of our ClickHouse-based data product, the real-time data layer powering customer-facing features.What You'll DoLead the design of shared data models that span product teams, working with engineers and product to align on how the core business concepts of the platform fit together.Set the technical direction for our ClickHouse-based data product as it moves into production: ingestion patterns, schema design, query performance, and operational reliability.Lead the design and implementation of scalable data contracts, APIs, and integration patterns between services.Ship Python/Django code alongside feature teams when the work touches the data layer; review PRs and unblock engineers.Establish the patterns and standards for how data flows from our transactional Postgres systems into ClickHouse to power customer-facing features.Identify and pay down data architecture tech debt incrementally, in coordination with product teams' roadmaps.Act as the senior technical voice on data architecture, mentoring engineers and improving how we approach data modeling and integration patterns across the organization.What We're Looking ForYou bring 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including a meaningful period operating at Staff or Principal Engineer level, with specialization in data architecture and data-intensive systems.You have a strong hands-on engineering background. You write code today and want to keep doing so.Experience designing shared data models that span multiple product teams in an enterprise SaaS or regulated environment.You have built or operated customer-facing data products (features where customers see and interact with their data) rather than purely internal BI.You have strong Python skills; familiarity with Django (or a comparable framework) is a plus.You have a track record of driving cross-team technical alignment.You have a product mindset: you care about how the data layer shows up in the customer experience, not just whether it is technically correct.You are eager to use AI tools to accelerate your own engineering work and inclined to share effective practices with the team.You have a genuine interest in mentoring other engineers, both in data architecture and operating effectively at a senior level.You have a sensibility for the data correctness, audit, and integrity expectations of regulated industries (finance, healthcare, or similar).You are a self-starter, comfortable being the senior data voice at a growing company and flexing across responsibilities as needed.Nice to HaveYou have a background working with contract, document, or unstructured data-heavy domains.BenefitsOwn the data architecture of an enterprise SaaS platform used by top-tier financial institutions.Influence technical work that unifies the data model across product teams and shapes the customer-facing data product as it moves into production.Work as a senior IC with broad technical scope, where your decisions show up directly in the product.Collaborate in a product-focused engineering culture at a small company where your decisions matter.Competitive compensation and benefits. Compensation will be determined based on experience and qualifications.J-18808-Ljbffr