Staff Data Engineer

• Set the technical direction for Lytxs cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platform balancing performance cost and reliability at scale.
• Design data models pipelines and storage layers that support analytics reporting and machine learning across the business.
• Partner with data engineering analytics product and AI teams to translate business needs into platform capabilities.
• Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives from design through delivery and represent the data platform in architecture reviews.
• Improve data quality governance and observability so teams can trust the data they build on.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices through code review design documents and mentorship of engineers at all levels.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools and approaches where they solve a real problem not for their own sake.
• Support the platforms ability to scale with Lytxs data volumes including new data from AI safety features.

• 10 years of experience in data engineering with a track record of designing and operating large-scale data warehouse or lakehouse platforms in production.
• Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery or Redshift) and distributed data processing (e.g. Spark).
• Strong SQL and Python skills and experience building and maintaining data transformation pipelines (e.g. dbt Airflow or similar orchestration tools).
• Solid understanding of data modeling warehouse design patterns and the tradeoffs between batch and streaming architectures.
• Experience operating data infrastructure on a major cloud provider (AWS Azure or GCP).
• A history of leading technical projects across teams and influencing architecture decisions without direct authority.
• Clear written and verbal communication you can explain a complex data model to both an engineer and a business stakeholder.
• A bias toward pragmatic solutions: you know when to build for scale and when to keep things simple.

• Experience with streaming data platforms (e.g. Kafka Kinesis or Flink).
• Experience supporting machine learning or AI feature pipelines.
• Background in IoT telematics video or another high-volume sensor data domain.
• Experience with data governance lineage or cataloging tools.

Lytxs culture runs on DRIVE: Deliver for the Customer Responsibility in Every Outcome Innovate with Purpose Velocity with Excellence and Elevate Each Other. As a Staff Engineer youll model these values daily owning outcomes end-to-end questioning assumptions to find better solutions moving quickly without cutting corners and investing in the growth of the engineers around you.

Lytxs data platform sits underneath nearly every 2026 company priority: it powers the safety insights behind our AI features the retention analytics that keep customers healthy and the reporting that supports LytxOnes growth. As a Staff Engineer on this team your architecture decisions have a direct visible impact on the business.

Youre driven to succeed and so are we. At Lytx our mission is to protect a world in motion and we do it by building technology and partnerships that help keep people safe on the road. The way we work is guided by our shared values: Deliver for the customer Responsibility in every outcome Innovate with purpose Velocity with excellence and Elevate each other.

If youre looking for meaningful work a team that challenges and supports you and the chance to grow your career while making a real impact wed love to meet you.

Together were helping make roadways safer and saving lives!

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