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Director of Engineering, Data

Gridware· Data Platform
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$260k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Director of Engineering to lead Gridware’s company-wide data platforms. Hands-on engineering leadership defining architecture, roadmaps, and team-building for a live production data platform with high-frequency, edge-generated data across many domains.

Responsibilities

  • Platform architecture and delivery • 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.
  • Advance legacy migrations and step-change improvements to data platforms without disrupting the teams already depending on them.
  • Applied data science • Manage a small, cross-functional data science team focused on rapid assessment of new data problems to determine valuable investments.
  • Set the bar for rigor on early-stage analysis. Turn ambiguous questions into scoped, decision-ready answers for stakeholders across the company.
  • Enablement and adoption • Own the tooling, patterns, and support that let business domains build and maintain their own analytics and reporting under a federated ownership model.
  • Build the data foundations that machine learning and applied research depend on.
  • Drive analytics enablement for both technical and non-technical teams across the company.
  • Org building • Hire and design the data organization as it grows over the next year.
  • Build and grow a world-class team of data engineering leaders.
  • Balance incubation work against platform goals, and grow both sides of the org as the business scales

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Experiencing leading data science/analytics, including efforts where the problem isn't well-defined.

Skills

Required:Data platform leadershipLakehouse and streaming toolingHigh-volume data handlingFederated/domain-ownership modelsData science leadership

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Alternating day off (every other Monday)
  • Off the Grid, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
  • Commuter allowance
  • Company-paid training
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Gridware

Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

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