Member of Technical Staff, Data Platform
New York, New York$140k - $260kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Software Engineer focused on designing, building, and scaling Profound’s data platform to power analytics, ML, and data-driven features across the company.
Responsibilities
- Design and build platform infrastructure that supports machine learning, analytics, and software engineers, as well as data scientists across the company
- Develop tools and frameworks for data ingestion, transformation, quality, and observability
- Architect scalable, reliable systems using Snowflake, Clickhouse, AWS, dbt, and Dagster
- Build governance, access control, and data quality systems that scale with the organization
- Enable MLOps by creating infrastructure that supports model development and productionization
- Drive technical decisions around platform architecture, tool selection, and data patterns
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to understand needs and deliver impactful solutions
Qualifications
- Proven experience building platforms for engineers and data scientists in areas such as product analytics and experimentation, data discovery and catalog, data quality and observability, or governance and access control
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed data systems
- Expertise with analytics and lakehouse technologies including ClickHouse, Tinybird, Snowflake, or Iceberg
- Strong cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with data governance, reliability, and secure data operations
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering and product teams
- Experience with or interest in MLOps and supporting machine learning workflows in production
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment
- Motivated by access to rare and interesting AI data based on real human interactions with large language models
- Excited by the opportunity to own and shape Profound’s data platform at an early stage
- Interested in working on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI and marketing
- Comfortable in a fast-moving culture with autonomy, trust, and room to grow
- Drawn to competitive compensation and meaningful equity
Skills
Required:Platform design and architectureData ingestion & transformationSnowflakeClickHouseAWS / GCP / AzureData governance & security
Nice to have:Dagster
Benefits
- Base salary range: $140,000 to $260,000 (NYC)
- Equity
- Full range of benefits and perks
- Visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Profound
Optimize Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search
Profound helps brands gain visibility in AI-generated answers, optimize their presence in LLM-based answer engines, and stay competitive in the zero-click world.
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