# Head of Data Infrastructure at Beacon

- Company: Beacon
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://beaconsoftware.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beaconsoftware/76c893a4-531a-4900-ba17-7a1f965c7aaf
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/beacon-head-of-data-infrastructure/

## 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

Tags: Engineering