# Senior Data Platform Engineer at Later

- Company: Later
- What the company does: Later is a social and influencer marketing service, as well as a link-in-bio tool. It develops high-performing social content and works with creators to reach new audiences, increase engagement, and achieve predictable ROI. Backed by Summit Partners.
- Company website: https://later.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $125K to $165K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/later/jobs/8863354002?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/later-senior-data-platform-engineer/

## About the role

Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years in data engineering, backend engineering, or platform engineering, with a track record of owning production data systems at scale and improving their reliability, performance, and cost
- Strong backend programming skills (Python or similar), solid SQL, and experience with dbt or a similar transformation framework
- Hands-on cloud experience, ideally GCP and BigQuery, and comfort working across more than one cloud
- Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and workflow orchestration
- Experience with batch and streaming architectures, and a working understanding of security, access control, and data governance
- The judgment to make architectural decisions and explain the tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners

Tags: Technology

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/later-senior-data-platform-engineer/