About the role
As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Foundation team at Inflect, you report directly to the VP of Technology and you will sit on the platform's critical path, owning the ingestion → catalog → derived pipeline and the core InfraSpec datasets that power our entire marketplace. In this role, the accuracy and integrity of our entire product is directly capped by the quality of the data platform you build and maintain. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Data Architecture & Pipeline Depth: Extensive hands-on experience building scalable ingestion, catalog, and derived pipelines with strict schema enforcement and data contracts
- Relentless Data Quality & Observability: A track record of engineering bulletproof data quality frameworks, testing protocols, and monitoring to keep pipeline rework targets under 20%
- Modern Data Stack Mastery: Expert-level command of SQL, Postgres, Python, modern data warehousing, and deep cloud-native AWS data ecosystem tools
- Platform Modernization: Proven capability to migrate single-owner legacy systems onto scalable, multi-tenant platform architectures - including graph database layer design
- Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration: Strong partnership skills for collaborating with global engineering, data science/ML, and trust/analytics teams across time zones
- Pipeline Scaling: Build, optimize, and scale end-to-end ingestion → catalog → derived pipelines across all core data domains feeding InfraSpec
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What You Will Do In This Role
As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Foundation team at Inflect, you report directly to the VP of Technology and you will sit on the platform's critical path, owning the ingestion → catalog → derived pipeline and the core InfraSpec datasets that power our entire marketplace. In this role, the accuracy and integrity of our entire product is directly capped by the quality of the data platform you build and maintain. Working closely with our VP of Technology in the US, a Data Foundation contractor in Poland, and cross-functional partners, you will transform raw, disparate digital infrastructure data into a resilient, high-confidence data platform. You are an architect of durable platform data systems, ensuring Inflect’s data engine—including our greenfield graph layer for RouteFinder—is as fast, reliable, and precise as the global infrastructure it maps.
Who You Are
You are a senior data engineering authority with a "boots on the ground" execution mindset. You don't just write SQL and Python scripts; you dive deep into data modeling, system mechanics, edge cases, and pipeline contracts. You probably recoil at the thought of just managing tickets or...
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