Founding Staff Data Engineer

Job overview

The Founding Staff Data Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. The posting lists compensation of $150,000–$300,000 per year and meaningful equity. The role supports an AI-native platform that helps organizations understand and improve how their businesses operate. This founding-level engineer will build the data platform and establish its architecture, tooling, and standards. The work enables internal analytics, customer-facing intelligence, and AI systems by making complex enterprise data reliable and usable across product workflows.

What you'll do

• Build the end-to-end data platform, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving
• design and scale ETL/ELT pipelines across enterprise data sources
• architect data models and semantic layers
• implement orchestration frameworks
• build and optimize batch and streaming data processing
• partner with engineering and product to embed data in product workflows
• work with customers to map and operationalize data systems
• establish data quality, testing, governance, and observability practices
• contribute to AI/ML pipelines where relevant.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

founding staff data engineer

san francisco ca

xpertalent

full-time

data platform

etl/elt

python

sql

dbt

airflow

dagster

snowflake

ai/ml

$150k–$300k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Meaningful equity.

Why this role

Founding-level ownership of the data platform, meaningful equity, and direct work with founders, engineers, and customers.

About the employer

Xpertalent is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.