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Director of Engineering, Data

Gridware · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

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About Gridware

With more than 90 million field hours and counting, Gridware is already detecting the small changes that lead to big problems.Together with utility companies, we’re preventing hazards from causing harm. We’re helping crews restore power quickly and safely.... Backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.

About the role

• Own the data platform end to end: ingestion, transformation, raw and sanitized data layers, and overall data architecture. • Drive data quality, observability, lineage, and governance across the organization.

What they're looking for

  • • 10+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, including 5+ years in engineering management roles, currently or most recently managing managers
  • • Hands-on experience with modern lakehouse and streaming tooling (e.g., Databricks, Kafka, Kinesis, CDC pipelines, Airflow, Terraform) and able to contribute heavily to an architecture review with the team
  • • Background in high-volume, machine-generated data: telemetry, sensor, IoT, observability, or logs, rather than primarily transactional or clickstream data
  • • Experience running a data platform with real internal business stakeholders beyond engineering
  • • Experience operating in a federated or domain-ownership model, with a clear point of view on what worked and what didn't
  • • Experience building or substantially rebuilding platform capability, not only maintaining a mature platform
More about this role

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io .

Role Overview

We're looking for a Director of Engineering to lead Gridware's company-wide data platforms. This is a hands-on, manager-of-managers role: you'll set the architecture, drive the roadmap, and build the team, on a platform that's live and in production today: real customers, a legacy migration in flight, and a federated ownership model across a large number of business domains.

You'll be working with novel, never-before-seen data: high-frequency...

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