Braintrust

Founding Data Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will establish the data foundation and make architectural decisions as a founding, hands-on data engineer. You will perform analytics engineering by defining business entities, modeling metrics, and owning ingestion pipelines.

What you will do

  • Define business entities, metrics, and semantics for Product, Finance, and GTM
  • Design and build core data models in SQL and dbt
  • Build and own ingestion from product events, CRM, and other business systems
  • Make architectural decisions regarding storage, orchestration, and transformation
  • Stand up self-serve analytics including semantic models and trusted metrics
  • Partner with Engineering and Product on usage data and event schemas
  • Treat governance and reliability as part of the data model
  • Use AI to accelerate builds and maintain a clean foundation

Required qualifications

  • Experience defining business entities and metrics and building the models behind them
  • Strong command of SQL and dbt
  • Experience with a cloud warehouse (Snowflake or equivalent)
  • Experience with an orchestrator (Dagster, Airflow, or similar)
  • Engineering depth to own pipelines end to end and write/maintain production code
  • Clear judgment about data modeling, schema evolution, contracts, and lineage
  • Strong debugging instincts across a multi-system path
  • Ability to work directly with executives and functional leaders
  • Comfort operating as the only data hire

Nice to have

  • Built a data foundation from scratch
  • Startup experience, especially as an early or first data hire
  • Experience across multiple business functions including Product, Finance, and GTM
  • Familiarity with usage-based pricing, consumption models, or PLG-plus-sales-assisted funnels
  • Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, AWS Batch/Lambda, Fivetran, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Soda, or semantic-layer tools like Omni or Looker
  • Built or used agents for internal workflows and analysis
  • Braintrust user

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Wifi & cellphone stipend

About the company

Braintrust is the agent observability platform. It provides visibility to understand how agents behave in production and tools to improve them.