Staff Data Engineer, Tech Lead

The role

You will design, scale, and govern a modern, cloud-based data platform. You will lead the data engineering team and drive technical direction for AI and agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Act as the overall technical leader for data engineering and architecture direction.
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from scoping to delivery.
• Drive organization-wide technical alignment in staff engineering leadership forums.
• Serve as a thought leader on AI and agentic workflows in data engineering.
• Architect and scale ingestion frameworks for internal and third-party data.
• Own and evolve machine learning deployment architecture.
• Define and enforce data schemas and best practices for data modeling.
• Own data governance strategy including quality, metadata, and compliance.
• Design and optimize system-wide data architecture for analytics and operational use cases.
• Mentor other engineers in code quality, architecture, and AI tooling.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 8+ years of data engineering experience
• 3+ years in senior or staff-level roles
• Track record as a tech lead owning technical direction and multi-quarter initiatives
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic engineering
• Proven expertise in data ingestion frameworks (batch and streaming)
• Deep experience with cloud-native data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift)
• Experience building or owning machine learning deployment infrastructure
• Strong command of SQL and Python
• Hands-on knowledge of data governance frameworks
• Strong understanding of data warehouse methodologies, dimensional and normalized modeling, and distributed system design
• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and metadata/catalog platforms (dbt, DataHub, Amundsen, or similar)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Multiple health benefit options
• Responsible Time Off
• 401(k) matching
• Opportunities and support for major career growth
• Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)
• Commuter benefits
• Lunches and snacks

About the company

Mudflap is a fintech platform modernizing the trucking industry by helping small businesses save on fuel. The company is backed by venture investors including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups.