Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform

Postscript Description

Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization. 

Job Description

We’re seeking a Staff Data Engineer to help lead our Data Engineering practice and take our data architecture into the future. You’ll be supporting our efforts to modernize our data stack and build our lakehouse to enable broad data access to BI, Machine Learning, and Engineering teams at Postscript.  You’ll be creating an Apache Iceberg data lakehouse and prerequisite data pipelines to unlock global data access across Postscript. 

Primary Duties:

• Own and evolve our data platform, tooling, and architecture to meet growing analytical and product needs.
• Help lead the delivery of a v2 data architecture at Postscript via a data lakehouse
• Build stream and batch data ingestion pipelines to process source data
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and BI to support net new analytics use cases and migrations
• Support existing data engineering systems
• Mentor and coach other data engineers and backend software engineers in the data practice

What We’ll Love About You:

• 8+ years as a Data Engineer working on the modern data stack
• 2+ years operating as a Staff or Lead engineer 
• 5+ years of experience writing production grade code (preferably in Go)
• You have familiarity with the JVM and at least one JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin)
• Passionate about data engineering and have strong software engineering skills
• You’ve worked in modern datalakes with open table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake
• You’ve built and operated stream processing pipelines with Apache Spark and/or Flink
• You have strong cloud architecture skills in the AWS ecosystem
• You’ve worked with a broad array of database technologies and understand how to select the right technology for the job (Postgres/OLAP/NoSQL/etc.)
• You’re seasoned in event-driven distributed systems
• You have a track record of success at remote mid/late-stage startups
• You’re able to build strong cross-team partnerships and have strong communication + project management skills
• Proven upward trajectory or history of promotions and success
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup experience specifically at successful growth companies (>200 employees, successful exits/fundraises with credible VCs, etc)

What You’ll Love About Us:

• Salary range of USD $200-235k base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance

What to expect from our hiring process :

• Intro Call: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Recruiter so we can get to know you better — and you can learn a little more about the role and Postscript. 
• Take-Home Technical Assignment: We will send over an exercise that challenges you to solve a problem & come up with a creative solution, or outline how you've solved a problem in the past. Get a feel for what you’ll be doing on a daily basis!
• Day 1 Interviews
  • Virtual Onsite Interviews: You’ll be meeting with a couple team members on a series of video calls. This is your chance to ask questions and see who this role interacts with on a daily basis.
• Day 2 Interviews
  • Hiring Manager Intro: You’ll hop on a quick call with the Hiring Manager so your future Manager can get to know you better — This is a great time to learn more about the team & position. 
  • Final FEACH Interview: This is our interview to assess your ability to represent how you work via our FEACH values. As we build the #1 team in Ecommerce, we look for individuals who embody FEACH professionally and personally. We want to hear about this in your final interview!
• Reference Checks: We ask to speak with at least two references who have previously worked with you, at least one should be someone who has previously managed your work.
• Offer: We send over an offer and you (hopefully) accept! Welcome to Postscript!