Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We are looking for a senior data infrastructure leader who is still deeply hands-on. Someone who has spent time inside companies like Snowflake, Databricks, or Confluent building the platforms others run on, and who now wants to apply that depth to a genuinely interesting operational problem.
What they're looking for
- Technical depth
- Hands-on background in distributed systems, query engines, or cloud data platforms
- Comfortable writing production Python, SQL, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Deep familiarity with modern lakehouse and warehouse internals (Iceberg, Delta, Parquet, Snowflake, Databricks)
- Strong grasp of streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink) and CDC patterns
- Experience building for both analytical and operational workloads at scale
More about this role
Beacon Software acquires and operates vertical market SaaS companies across North America. We run a portfolio of 25+ software businesses spanning campground management, election platforms, field safety tools, proptech data, workforce scheduling, and more, with a shared focus on compounding customer value over the long term.
Data sits at the centre of how we operate. We use it to run portfolio companies better, underwrite new acquisitions, and increasingly to build AI-powered capabilities into our products. This role is the person who architects, owns, and builds the infrastructure that makes all of that possible.
We are looking for a senior data infrastructure leader who is still deeply hands-on. Someone who has spent time inside companies like Snowflake, Databricks, or Confluent building the platforms others run on, and who now wants to apply that depth to a genuinely interesting operational problem.
You will be the first dedicated data infrastructure hire at the Beacon holding-company level. You will design the architecture, write significant amounts of the code, and set the patterns for how data flows across a growing portfolio. The problem is not generic. Multi-tenant...
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